Let Them Be Healed
Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. Hebrews 12:12-13
Sometimes the body just has problems and it needs attention. Sometimes one or two or six surgeries are not enough…
This morning the Ortho-doc told me once again that another round of surgeries are needed for both my knees—as the saying goes trouble comes in twos or threes…
Yet, mine are fixable and I’m optimistic. So many others have not such an outlook…
I saw one sister in Christ this morning—her shoulders were stooped, her steps shuffled, her gaze—glazed over… many and various are the trials and tests that are occurring in her life and its effect harming her physically as well. What could I do but hopefully depart a few words of encouragement and some prayer—not much for a suffering soul…
There are many Christians who have their hands down… they are discouraged… their guard is down, and they are wounded. They stay away from churches because they found cliché’s and the felt the people were cold and aloof. They tried to get involved, tried to help out. Tried to make friends but they could not break into the well-built caste system so they just quit and stayed home. They need our prayer.
There are many lame. They’ve been kicked, injured, or harmed. It takes a great deal of effort to heal the harmed. More time is needed and it costs more. It’s not as glamorous and we have to get closer, pay more attention, and some times pick up the cost… but isn’t that what we’re called to do…
Are we not called to help heal the hurting? I worked as a medic for fifteen years prior to becoming a historian. I know a few things about healing. I know that it takes patience. I know that in our fast-paced world that patience is really hard to come by. I know that healing is not pretty. It seems that people who are healing—and therefore are covered with all kind of worldly stuff or attitudes (remember how many you had?) are pretty much kept at the back of the church—if they come at all. Why are'nt we concerned with these hurting folks anymore?
I mean, where’s the heart… of the church today?
Sometimes the body just has problems and it needs attention. Sometimes one or two or six surgeries are not enough…
This morning the Ortho-doc told me once again that another round of surgeries are needed for both my knees—as the saying goes trouble comes in twos or threes…
Yet, mine are fixable and I’m optimistic. So many others have not such an outlook…
I saw one sister in Christ this morning—her shoulders were stooped, her steps shuffled, her gaze—glazed over… many and various are the trials and tests that are occurring in her life and its effect harming her physically as well. What could I do but hopefully depart a few words of encouragement and some prayer—not much for a suffering soul…
There are many Christians who have their hands down… they are discouraged… their guard is down, and they are wounded. They stay away from churches because they found cliché’s and the felt the people were cold and aloof. They tried to get involved, tried to help out. Tried to make friends but they could not break into the well-built caste system so they just quit and stayed home. They need our prayer.
There are many lame. They’ve been kicked, injured, or harmed. It takes a great deal of effort to heal the harmed. More time is needed and it costs more. It’s not as glamorous and we have to get closer, pay more attention, and some times pick up the cost… but isn’t that what we’re called to do…
Are we not called to help heal the hurting? I worked as a medic for fifteen years prior to becoming a historian. I know a few things about healing. I know that it takes patience. I know that in our fast-paced world that patience is really hard to come by. I know that healing is not pretty. It seems that people who are healing—and therefore are covered with all kind of worldly stuff or attitudes (remember how many you had?) are pretty much kept at the back of the church—if they come at all. Why are'nt we concerned with these hurting folks anymore?
I mean, where’s the heart… of the church today?
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