Today the focus for some reason for me has been on Healing—Wholeness--Restoration. I was reading in John 5:1-18 and was struck by the paralytic’s inability to make it to the healing waters for 38 years. 38 years of believing a part of him can’t be healed. Yet, deep in him there was a speck of belief that healing was possible. I often wonder if we realize after many layers of scars and wounds and the passing of considerable time, if we have resigned ourselves that there is not healing available for a portion of our souls. Healing physically is one thing, yet another is spiritual and emotional soul healing.
Last week I was cleaning up some boxes of stuff I had in my uncles basement and came across a “personal and confidential” torn, battered box. These were letters and notes from my parents, siblings, friends, and relationships I hadn’t looked at in 20 years. A lot of emotions flooded in me I didn’t know was still there. In there was a lot of joy, but a lot of it was pain from my past that hadn’t been brought out in many years. I think God for some reason took me supernaturally into some of those journal entries, letters, and notes for a reason. A part of me had to go into the pain to be healed from the pain, and find deeper wholeness and restoration in God. A part of me had to repent for some things and turn to God for even deeper trust and healing. A part of me knew to find the healing waters I had to let Jesus enter my heart and soul even deeper.
God knows the deeper needs of our hearts. That is why Jesus asks an even deeper, startling question “Do you want to be healed?” (John 5:6) Are you willing to take a deeper look underneath the trunk and let God seep into the crevices of your soul where healing needs to happen? When you let those healing waters of grace and peace into those deep crevices, it is no wonder we leap for joy and take up our mat and walk and tell the world of God’s amazing and saving love.
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