About answers that heal…
Psalm 91:15 He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him. 16 With long life will I satisfy him and show him my
salvation." (NIV)
We have so many hurts in life it is a wonder we survive them all. We survive our hurts
and can even prosper from our hurts because Christ is always with us if we want Him. In
life, we want answers about why there is hurt and suffering. We sometimes want to know why
we or others must hurt and suffer. We want God to speak boldly and forcefully to us. We
want God to give us a reason to keep on keeping on when the times of hurt and suffering
come. If we tune our heart in to His love, He is at this moment giving us answers that
help us heal from the wounds inflicted upon us. As we seek out answers from others, from
books, from literature, and from all kinds of sources of wisdom, it is the gentle touch of
Christ that heals us. More than the wisdom of the ages, it is Christ who heals our broken
lives. It is in His suffering and death that we see the defeat of evil in the world.
Because Christ suffered, died, and rose again, we see that in Christ we can conquer the
evil in this life. For the pain of life comes as surely as we are born and as we die, but
in Christ's eyes we see His love that carries us over the hurt. In His eyes, we find an
eternal healing that overcomes the faulty body, the broken heart, and the hurting mind of
this life. In Jesus, we find answers that do not just make us feel better. In Jesus, we
find answers that give us new life in this life and new life in eternity.
