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Grace and Healing

God wants to impact your past, present and future with His grace. When you accept this truth, He grows your faith. Grace is foundational to our faith. A total game changer. And the benefits of this gift are huge. One of the ways grace moves us forward in faith is by healing our heart wounds.

God is all about healing wounded hearts. His grace empowers me to embrace both the good and the grit of my past and present. Because God can make all things—every last experience and circumstance—work together for my good if I love Him and trust His sovereignty (Romans 8:28).

The psalmist tells us, “He (God) heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” The word heals in this verse is the Hebrew word rapha which means to mend, to repair, to cure, to purify, to rebuild, to make whole. We regret, we blame, we hide, we bleed, we shame ourselves and walk around wounded. Church lobby to church lobby. Pew to pew. These feelings seem right, but they eat us up from the inside out.

God’s plan is healing. He gives us what we do not deserve when he rebuilds our lives in grace… when He cures our sin problem with forgiveness… when He makes our broken hearts whole again. In order for me to experience this healing, I must accept this truth and allow grace to heal the heart wounds of my past and present.

Have you allowed God to heal your heart wounds? I have. And after my wounded heart was healed, I began to realize that grace is a more amazing gift than I even knew.

And it is not safe. Grace is uncomfortable.

Far from neat and proper, it is messy, inside out, and upside down. It just doesn’t seem right that I can be forgiven and set free from my failures and rebellions. Grace is the apex of our hope because Jesus is the apex of grace. He is the perfecting point of connection between our fallen humanity and God’s divine forgiveness.

Jesus. Fully man. Fully God. My source of grace.

As for me, I am just a train wreck of a woman. Fully flawed: arrogant, stubborn, and vibrantly aware of the shortcomings that shout my depravity. But meaningfully changed, to the core, by His grace that is greater-than.

Greater than my junky attitudes.

Greater than my biases and pride.

Greater than my wounds and struggles.

Greater than my wandering ways.

Greater than my limitations and weaknesses.

I am in desperate need of Jesus and His grace. And I want to live with a greater-than grace that is intentional to the point that it makes me uncomfortable. Join me today?