Bro. Eddie Ministries Reading Plan: The Word Gives HopeHalimbawa

God makes us whole

All over the world are wounded souls. They look happy but inside they cry out. They wear smile on their faces yet deep within are wounds that have never been healed.

No one could truly be free from pain because its main root is sin. Sin brings out the worst in people and it always puts them in strife. Thus it wounds our soul.

But we do not need to languish in pain. Because God wants to make us whole. He desires to heal our wounds in the soul no matter how deep they are.

Luke had seized words that offer hope from the Lord’s mouth. He said, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” (Luke 4:18)

The Spirit of the Lord had empowered Jesus when He was in the flesh. He held that power to restore the people and to meet them at the point of their need. But such mission came in full force only when He died and rose again. For God’s law required blood to be shed for it. (Hebrews 9:22; Matthew 20:28)

Jesus’ death and resurrection gave power to His work of restoration among the people. Today, He goes on with His mission to rebuild shattered lives.

Man will find inner healing only through Christ. He who chooses to surrender to His lordship will find it. Thus we must admit our need of Him before we could be healed of deep hurts.

We can do that by listening to and believing in His Word.

This is the reason why Jesus said He was sent to “preach the gospel to the poor.”

He came to preach the Good News to them that are spiritually bankrupt. He came to our rescue. Because He knew that we could not on our own recover from the ruin of sin, which made our spirits gloomy and poor.
To believe the gospel, which tells us how God redeemed our soul, is the first step to wholeness. It will reward us soundness of spirit. It will also give us an access to the kingdom of God and eternal life. (John 3:3, 16)
Yet we must understand that to believe the gospel will not promise us a life free from pain. We can never be totally free from life’s struggles because man is still in his fallen state. (Romans 3:23)

The wicked spirits are also in the high places ruled by Satan to continue to bring destruction in the world. (Ephesians 6:12; 2 Corinthians 4:4).

That is why Jesus came “to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.” It tells us we have the Lord to lean on whenever we go through painful circumstances.

God cannot make a person whole in just one night. It is a lifetime process and has its practical side. Every man needs to make steps to be totally healed and restored. He needs to submit to God the attitudes that worsen his condition. Whether they are anger, hatred, bitterness, self-pity, revenge, resentment and such like, he needs to let go of these. For the process of healing to begin in his life, he must own these up. And as God has promised, He will make him whole and a brand new person. (2 Corinthians 5:17)

Reflection:
1. About what was the instance that you were totally in pain? What did you do then to overcome it?
2. Is there a struggle in your past that keeps on troubling you? Take time to pray and turn it over to God. Let Him handle it and set you free from it. Jot down how He healed you from it.

Jesus came to earth to touch us with His healing grace.