Healing comes in many forms, and in our culture we often
hear things like “Time heals all things”, etc. This week as I have spent time reading in
Psalm 30, it was with no lack of clarity that the word “Time” should be
replaced by “God”, as in “God heals all things”. “O Lord my God, I called to you for help and
you healed me”. I know for me personally
the big step in the statement above is actually calling for help. We live in a time and place where our world
tells us to “pick yourself up by your bootstraps”, or even “get ‘r dun”…the
focus is always on ourselves but when we fail to get it done on our own, we
seek out professional help for physical and emotional healing. There is still a certain sense of self in
seeking professional help as we analyze which doctor is the most qualified to
do for us what we need/want and we remain in control of the process (at least
we convince ourselves that we do).
What if we shift our perspective? What if we read God’s Story with purpose and
begin to find the love and grace, even the healing that He offers between Genesis
1:1 and Revelation 22:21? What if we
begin to understand the story in its entirety?
What if we allow our focus and energy to be diverted from ‘me’. What if we allow God’s word to flow into our
body and soul and provide a perspective and a healing that cannot be controlled
by us, bought by us or achieved by us?
The Psalmist acknowledges that pain will come, weeping is inevitable and
anger is unavoidable; but points out the temporal nature of any such
suffering. Healing comes about when our eyes and spirit
are clearly focused on the unshakable foundation that is GOD.
I am not sure where you are right now and what type of hurts
you may be experiencing, nor would I pretend to understand your hurts, as they
are uniquely yours. Regardless I do want
to encourage you with this. Seek first His
Kingdom and His Righteousness and all these things will be given to
you as well…I expect healing is part of “all these things”.
- Ryan Preston
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