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Become a Wounded Healer

The transformation we looked at in the preceding devotional finds its ultimate purpose when you allow God to use your healed wounds to bring healing to others. What if God wants to leverage your past, your hurts, your sins, your mistakes, and your regrets to help others find healing and transformation?

Don’t think it’s possible? We see this over and over again in the ministry of Jesus in the Gospels.

For example, once two blind men started following Jesus and calling out to Him, “Have mercy on us, son of David!” (Matthew 9:27).

Jesus asked them if they truly believed He could restore sight. They said they did. So He touched them and healed them.

What did they do after this?

What would you do if you had been blind for years and then encountered someone who restored your sight?

“They went out and spread the news about him all over that region” (verse 31). Through their testimony, many others learned about the One who brought healing and new life. In other words, they became wounded healers.

Now let’s bring this back to you.

What if the thing that was the most painful, most embarrassing part of your story could bring the most people freedom? What if God could use your eating disorder to help others who have eating disorders? What if God could use your divorce to help other couples avoid divorce? What if God could use your bankruptcy to help others avoid financial mistakes? What if God could use your porn addiction to help others find freedom? What if God could use your sexual abuse to help others find hope and healing from their abuse?

Somehow we think God wants us to hide the broken parts of us, or He can’t use the broken parts of us, but it’s actually the broken parts of us that have been transformed by God that demonstrate God’s grace the most. God doesn’t use perfect people; He uses authentic people.

Perfection isn’t the goal of the Christian life—being real is.

How can you use the broken parts of your past to show the way to healing for other broken people?

This plan is presented to you by Being Real > Being Perfect by Justin Davis. To learn more about this book, please click here.