The March/April issue of ‘Every Day with Jesus’ [CWR Publications] has the title ‘Healing Wounds’.
Selwyn introduces this new topic, as follows: “We embark today on a theme which I trust will not only deepen your love for Jesus Christ, but will help you to understand in an even deeper way the truth of His ability to enter into and sympathise with every phase of human life and need. Let it be said at once – Jesus is a wounded healer. …
(and, he concludes, with) Nothing can be more wonderful in earth and heaven than to know that when we come to Jesus, we come to One who has worn our flesh, measured its frailty and knows exactly how we feel.”
If, you think about it, Jesus as God, does not match the image of a ‘god’, as seen through the eyes of other religious faiths. First off, He is born outside the comfort of a home, and to some his status may have been questionable (conceived outside of marriage). As a child, His family flees to Egypt, and He lives as a refugee; then returns with His family to live in Israel; in a small village where He may have suffered some rejection. He gives up any idea of a normal life; and spends the last three years of His young life as a wandering preacher, depending on the hospitality of other people – He has no permanent ‘home’. Lastly, He dies a terrible death on a cross, exposed to public ridicule.
In chapter 53, of the book of the prophet Isaiah, the first six verses – foretells, the nature of our wounded God: “Who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?
My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.
He was despised and rejected – a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care.
Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins!
But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.”
Fantastic verses – don’t you think?
We truly do have a God – who can, and does, care for us - as we live (carried by Him) through all our wounds and weaknesses.
‘His wounds answer our wounds’
The March/April issue of ‘Every Day with Jesus’ [CWR Publications] has the title ‘Healing Wounds’.
Selwyn introduces this new topic, as follows: “We embark today on a theme which I trust will not only deepen your love for Jesus Christ, but will help you to understand in an even deeper way the truth of His ability to enter into and sympathise with every phase of human life and need. Let it be said at once – Jesus is a wounded healer. …
(and, he concludes, with) Nothing can be more wonderful in earth and heaven than to know that when we come to Jesus, we come to One who has worn our flesh, measured its frailty and knows exactly how we feel.”
If, you think about it, Jesus as God, does not match the image of a ‘god’, as seen through the eyes of other religious faiths. First off, He is born outside the comfort of a home, and to some his status may have been questionable (conceived outside of marriage). As a child, His family flees to Egypt, and He lives as a refugee; then returns with His family to live in Israel; in a small village where He may have suffered some rejection. He gives up any idea of a normal life; and spends the last three years of His young life as a wandering preacher, depending on the hospitality of other people – He has no permanent ‘home’. Lastly, He dies a terrible death on a cross, exposed to public ridicule.
In chapter 53, of the book of the prophet Isaiah, the first six verses – foretells, the nature of our wounded God: “Who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?
My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.
He was despised and rejected – a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care.
Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins!
But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.”
Fantastic verses – don’t you think?
We truly do have a God – who can, and does, care for us - as we live (carried by Him) through all our wounds and weaknesses.