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Healing Comes In Increments
Author : Ann Doupont
Some healing can come instantaneously as in a miraculous recovery of eyesight, such as is written in the gospels. Other healings come more gradually as when a person’s fever breaks and begins to return to normal.
Where there have been a multitude of wounds from life’s experiences, this healing might take a long time. There may be spurts of healings here and there for a long period of time, but the wounds were so deep and there were so many of them that it seems like they’ll never heal.
When I was in a motorcycle accident in 1970, spending nearly 4 months in the hospital, the doctors weren’t sure I would live. My thigh bone was broken. My face was one big scab. My abdomen was swollen and at first they thought I had a ruptured spleen. Because of the severity of the more serious wounds, they neglected to address the torn ligaments in the knee of the broken leg.
God spared my life, but I was left with many scars. There were parts of my body that weren’t healed. Then, in coming to Christ nearly 10 years later, there was a lot of work to be done in me in the invisible realm, the soul.
As God begins to take us from glory to glory (2 Corinthians 3:18), working in us an inner healing and we begin to feel better, that healing is not yet complete. There’s still more to be done.
Sometimes, new wounds come along the way and the progress we’d made is hindered or even reversed. We can’t give up on God, however, as He is our only hope (Colossians 1:27). Starting again on our venture of healing, we know that we might get hurt again. But, we trust that God has a plan and a purpose for what we’ve suffered and have yet to suffer.
For the joy that was set before Jesus, He was able to endure to the end. He saw ahead, knowing that many sinners would be saved through His sufferings. That kept Him going. (See Hebrews 12:1-3.) We too can keep on going, knowing that through us, souls can be saved.
As we give heed to our lives and to our doctrine, those who hear us will be saved. (See 1 Timothy 4:16.) How important is it then that we watch how we live!
As more inner healing comes to us, we become better able to do the work to which we’re called. This “inner healing” starts with humility, acknowledging to ourselves and to God (and then also to others) that we’re imperfect and need and want His help. Then, we begin to experience more than ever before.
As one friend said, “We need to be willing to look inside.” As we see what is in our heart that needs to be changed, and allow that inner change to take place, there will then be peace, comfort, and rest for our souls.
Ann Doupont
www.anndoupont.org
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