Posts Tagged: Isaiah 53:5

“No Reproach in God’s Healing”

            “But he as pierced for our transgressions;

                        he was crushed for our iniquities;

             upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,

                        and with his wounds we are healed.”

(Isaiah 53:5, English Standard Version

https://accordance.bible/link/read/ESVS#Is._53:5)

“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.”

(Romans 8:1–2, English Standard Version

https://accordance.bible/link/read/ESVS#Rom._8:1)

If you read my blog posts regularly, you have no doubt picked up on the fact that my own musings are often provoked by my 12-step readings.  Today’s post is another one with the same origin.  This is from today’s reading from Twenty-Four Hours a Day.

“God has no reproach for anything that He has healed. I can be made whole and free, even though I have wrecked my life in the past. Remember the saying: ‘Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more.’

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may not carry the burden of the past. I pray that I may cast it off and press on in faith.”  (From Twenty-Four Hours a Day © 1975 by Hazelden Foundation)

I was especially struck with the words, “God has no reproach for anything He has healed.”

Sometimes, I don’t feel very healed.  But is it really about my feelings?  I believe, at least in my better moments, that Christ was God with skin on.  I believe, at least in my better moments, that Christ died for all my sins.  I believe, at least in my better moments, that I need to—and can go to God each day, each moment of the day, for the forgiveness of my sins.  And in that moment, no matter how I feel about it, God does in fact forgive and heal me.

I need to quit picking the scabs off wounds that God is healing.  I need to let the wounds become scars, scars that are as beautiful as the God who gave his life to heal my wounds.

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