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“NO REPROACH FOR ANYTHING GOD HAS HEALED”

On July 6, 2017 by Dteb With 0 Comments - down to earth believer

“God has no reproach for anything that He has healed.”  (http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/thought-for-the-day, accessed 06-30-2017.  The quote is from the book Twenty-Four Hours a Day.)

“Some people think of scars as the sign of a wound.  I think of them as a sign of healing.”  (The source is unknown, though it may be my own.  More likely, I have reworded someone else’s thought a bit.)

I woke up this morning feeling pretty self-reproachful concerning my past.  Then, I turned to the Hazelden twelve-step reading quoted above.

It set me to thinking about various verses in the Bible that talk about what God can and does do with our sins.  Here are a few of those verses:

Psalm 103:12:  “He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west” (New Living Translation).

1 John 1:9:  “But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness” (New Living Translation).

But one of my favorite verses is:

Micah 7:19:  “Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean!” (New Living Translation).

Years ago, I hear David Seaman say in a sermon something to the effect that God throws our sins into the depths of the ocean, and then God puts a sign on the shore.  The sign says, NO FISHIN’ ALLOWED!

Whether your sins are ancient history or pretty much current news, the NO FISHIN’ sign still applies.  If Jesus died for the sins of the whole world, then our scars, even those from self-inflicted wounds, are signs of healing, rather than simply of the wounds.

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