What Does Healing Look Like Part 1

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Psalm 147:3

What does it mean to know God as our healer? The one who binds up our wounds.

My mind flashes to scenes I have seen on television. A war is taking place, soldiers get wounded. Nurses and doctors are on the back of the battlefield as soldiers come in. The soldiers are triaged according to the severity of their wounds. The doctors, attentive to the wounded are often stretched thin. Nurses tend to those waiting, watching them sometimes die in their arms.

I think about how wounds themselves heal. Most often they require cleaning, disinfecting to create the proper environment for healing. Some wounds need open air, others need to be covered and bandaged until they have started healing. Then the point is reached that the bandages can come off and the air helps complete the process. Some wounds leave scars, other wounds heal so completely there is no visible evidence.

The thing about God is this. There is no triage when we come to Him for help. He does not stage our pain and make us wait according to the severity. He is able to help us all, with deep and small wounds at the same time. The process can be different depending on our individual needs but at the end of the day the result is the same. He heals our broken heart and our wounds.

If God as Healer is foreign to you, that's okay. There are things we experience that hurt deeply and are difficult to lay at His feet. From my own experience I would say start with writing out your pain in a journal. Write what hurts you. When I started healing from deep childhood trauma my first journal was like this. "I hate writing, I don't want to do this, this is stupid" over and over I wrote that until one day it changed. I wrote "God..........help me. I hate the people who hurt me." and that was a turning point.

This life we live can be like a battlefield. We do get scarred and wounded. The good news is we don't have to wait our turn. Start where ever you are. He is waiting and ready to start the process for each and everyone of us big or small.