As we listen to those who call, and the struggles that continue in the lives of God’s people our heart is touched. In these days the words of Jesus ring loudly in my ears, (Matthew 9:12 KJV)
But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
We get so caught up on the “affairs of this life” and “working for God” that we do not realize we need healing. When we get into trouble, often it is an incident that triggers and reopens an old wound that has never healed properly. That can be a mental wound, an emotional wound, something scraping a wound will, or even a spiritual wound.
How can I tell when a wound has been hit or triggered? A number of years ago, God gave me an axiom that has proven true as I have observed over the intervening years.
You know an unhealed wound has been touched when the reaction far outweighs the action.
You have probably heard the saying, “Wounded people wound people.” This is so true. Recently I have observed such a rash of these type of things being presented to me for discernment and sometimes for mediation. It is important to understand that Jesus came to heal these wounds and sores too. Too often we focus only on the visible and do not recognize this level of wounding.
In my observations I have notice that many Christians think that “bucking up” and “moving on”, ignoring where they are wounded is the mature thing to do. This is all based on a misconception of what maturity is. Scriptures are twisted to be made to support this line of thinking and they continue to walk on with their infected wounds of spirit and soul especially.
In seeking God for an answer He revealed to me a spiritual parallel to a natural scab. A scab is the formation over a wound of a hard cover that is only suppose to be there until the wound heals. The problem is in our soul and spirit, each step of healing requires me to give God permission to proceed through the healing process. Often, when the wound no longer pains us, we think it is healed, but it is still infected with things like rejection, abandonment, and bitterness. These toxic emotional infections, if not dealt with spread through our emotions and are read into other circumstances that may have none of that in it. When that happens pain ensues and misreading of events and situations increase producing deadly mental attitude and emotional contamination. Relationships become contaminated and we become less than what God has intended.
Mark 2:17 KJV When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: ...
Wholeness applies not just to the body, but to the whole man. In the above passage Jesus was not referring to physical illness at all. He was referring to sickness of soul and spirit. When we do not deal with those sicknesses, infections and conditions, we cannot be used of God to heal other the way He desires. Pain filters everthing that we do, think, and emote, when it is in our lives.
When I am in an ‘altercation’ with someone and my reaction is way larger than the situation deserves, I need to ask God to show me what scab in me has been taken off, by what happened. Remember an emotional or spiritual scab is a hard spot in my character or nature that has been produced to protect a wound while it is suppose to heal. Too often the wound has not been treated for infection before the scab formed, thus the incident, hitting that same area, reminding me of the former unhealed situation produces mental or emotional pain causing the undue reaction.
Jesus did not only come to heal us, He came to make us whole.
While comtemplating the incident in scripture of the 10 lepers, I heard this in my spirit: “9 were healed, only one was made whole”. This thought challenged my thinking and a re-examination of the Biblical account caused me to ponder.
All 10 had leperousy. It is quite possible that they had places where the leperousy had cause portions of their physical frame to fall off or somehow be no longer there. Jesus said the same thing to all ten of them. But there was one among the 10 that was different. He was different in race, he was a Samaritan. This made him an outcast among the Jews which it seems the other lepers were. So he would have been a double outcast.
All of them had some outward sign of the leperousy, because the priest was the one in those days to judge clean and unclean. They were told to go to him and he would pronounce them able to return to society and he would judge the evidence of their healing and release them. Yet, the outcast among the outcasts, was different in another way as well. He was thankful and came back to Jesus to say so. Jesus had healed the others, but to this thankful one, He said, (Luke 17:19 KJV) And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.
There is a difference between being healed and being made whole. In the original language, although one could translate the word for healed as whole, the word used in the original for “whole” has a deeper and broader inclusive sense. Many are satisfied with being healed and go on their way rejoicing. I have decided that I want to be whole. this means to me that with every reminder that I am not yet whole, every incident where my reaction to something far outweighs the actions done toward me, I will be going back to Jesus until He said I am whole.
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