“I was more broken than you on the Cross.”
A few months ago, the Lord whispered this to me. I drew a picture of a wound with blood pouring out. Divine Blood. Eternal Life.
I’ve been learning a lot about wounds lately. How very important they are. From Jesus’ wounds sprang eternal life; ours are important as well.
When we try to heal wounds ourselves, dirt and mire finds them. I think the Lord wants to do so much more with our brokenness. I have felt Him calling me to sit and soak in His presence, to let Him touch and heal my griefs. To allow His Spirit, His eternal life to pour of them out into the lives of those surrounding me. The reason I tend to shy away from this, I believe, that we all tend to shy away from exposing the wounds that the sin of ourselves and the world has inflicted upon us, from being real with our hurts, is because it... hurts. Like when putting hydrogen peroxide on a cut, allowing His Spirit to restore our rawness stings and pulls and brings us to our knees. But, in that place on the ground, in the space where prayers turn to tears, when Jesus holds us and turns our gazes heavenward, His light shines the most.
Jesus’ wounds saved us all. And He wants to keep pouring out into the world through ours, healing them as His glory passes through, giving us beautiful scars to share His testimony.
I saw a vision of His Kingdom. We were all covered in bruises and scrapes and dirt and blood. His blood. We were following Him Whose blood gave us life. Our raggedness made all the more powerful at His divine touch. He had conquered death and was leading us home. And one day, we will be clothed in fine linen, white and pure, behind the Faithful and True Rider on a white horse, who will wear many diadems and Whose word is like a double-edged sword. Our wounds will be healed. But the same Rider, with eyes like flames of fire, called King of Kings and Lord of Lords, He it is who we are following now. Who wants to touch and heal our wounds. The Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. The Lover of your soul wants to heal you and He wants to revive the world while doing it, will you let Him?
"But He was pierced for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities: upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with His wounds we are healed." Isaiah 53:5
Revelation 20:11-15
