All Scars Fade Over Time

Yesterday my daughter was having some stomach pain and she asked me "Which side is your appendix on?" You know, I couldn't remember. I even had my appendix removed at age 5, but I couldn't remember the pain, or even the location of my own scar. I am sure that the surgery had to have been quite an ordeal at the time - surgery on a five year old in the 60's. But now, I can hardly see my scar at all.

The voice again ~ All scars fade over time.

How true! No mater the context - physical, emotional or even spiritual. If we allow the Father's hands to touch our wounds, they do heal and even the scar left behind will fade and affect us less as time goes on. This is God's way. Often however, we want to pick our wounds, keep them fresh, complain and re-live the pain over and over again. That is not God's preferred path. If a wound is clean and cared for it will heal. If the scar is left alone, before long, we hardly even think about the hurt from whence it came.

When we deny this healing, we are denying the work of Christ in our lives. We have been told to "forgive so that we may be forgiven" and our relationship will be right with our God. Christ died"once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous." Only our own pride keeps us from the total healing that He provides.

There is only one set of wounds that will never heal .
These precious scars remain so that our deepest hurts and fears can, if we allow, heal and fade away.

But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. Isaiah 53:5