The Wounded Healer (Part 2)

When a soldier is hurt in battle, the first thing doctors and nurses do is to place the affected area in a cast, bandage the wound, or place you in a bed to immobilize you and allow the body to heal. Whatever the wound, the first thing to do is keep you from moving.

As I began to ponder about this analogy, I received a revelation about wounded Christians. Many times, we feel our wound immobilizes us when in fact it helps provide us with stability. Think about it for a second. During times of hurt, we tend to either (a) keep the problem to ourselves or (b) seek God's help. If we keep the problem to ourselves, we have allowed the wound to immobilize us. That is we have placed a "cast" over our Spirit. However, if we seek God's help, we have asked Him to provide stable healing in our Spirit despite the cast being there.

Therefore, the first step to serve God despite our wounds is to work towards developing a stable spirit. But how can we develop spiritual stability? We will talk a bit more about this in the next blog. While you ponder about this, think about trying to answer this question: "Has there ever been a time in your life where you have had no control over your situation?"

The Wounded Healer (Part 1)

The world is hurting. Plain and simple. Life is getting more complicated, more demanding, and more and more people are being treated for stress-induced diseases than ever. Did you know that a 15 year old today have stress levels of a mid-life adult in the 1960's? That speaks volumes of the world that we are living in. As a consequence we are all wounded.

This becomes especially difficult to believers such as ourselves to confront. How can we as Christians heal others when we ourselves are wounded? In this blog, I hope to learn about what other Christians have to say. Let's hope that all those wounded warriors, will rise and pose healing solutions to others in pain.