Sin is ugly. It makes scars on our hearts and on our bodies; it has an eternal effect on our lives. “For the wages of sin is death…” (Romans 6:23). We can’t heal ourselves. We can’t take away our scars but Jesus can. He came to heal our scars. He can “sympathize with our weaknesses” (Hebrews 4:15). Jesus became like us; He understands our pain. His cross shows us that He understands. Isaiah 53:3-7 shows us that God’s love for us meant that Jesus would have scars just like us.
“But one of the elders said to me, ‘Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals.’ And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain…” (Revelation 5:5-6). There stood Jesus, the living Lamb, with scars from His sacrifice for us on earth. He was slain for you and I. Jesus has scars so that you and I can live with ours. We cannot have eternal life without His wounds, for “by His wounds you have been healed” (1 Peter 2:24). Because of His scars, we can be saved. We need to trust God with our scars. We need to trust Him with our sins, with our flaws, with our wounds. We trust God because He earned it on the cross. “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” (Romans 8:32). We need to tell God about our struggles and our sins. We need to talk to Him daily. There is no scar that is too big to be healed. Paul called himself the “Chief of sinners” (1 Timothy 1:15) and he was healed. Let your scars remind you of Jesus’ scars. Let them remind you of God’s unending love and mercy. Let them remind you of how much we need God. “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh” (2 Corinthians 4:7-11). “There stood a Lamb as though it had been slain…”
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Debbie Miller
7/7/2018 09:20:31 am
I love this...a beautiful perspective of our loving Father💙
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Donna Deagel
7/9/2018 05:37:30 pm
Very good
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AuthorMy name is Jennifer Odom and I've been a Christian since October 2011. I'm a 20-year-old junior at Freed-Hardeman University. I hope to speak at several ladies days, become a music teacher, get involved with mission work, and bring as many people as I can with me to heaven. Stepping in Light is affiliated with the church of Christ. Archives
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