1. Give Your Hurt to Jesus
We can’t heal from something if we don’t go to the Healer.
In Matthew 11:28-30 (MSG), Jesus invites us to come and lay down our burdens - whatever those are. He also wants to help lighten our load.
Jesus wants us to live by grace - not by what the world puts on us.
Which is often a lot. Plus, that load can include yuckiness that Satan wants us to carry - usually to keep us distracted or captive.
In the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), we see Jesus’s miracles of healing people.
His healing isn’t limited to just physical aspects. It also includes emotional, mental, and community-related suffering.
But, no matter the type of issue, the first step is to approach Jesus about it.
We have to open our hearts and invite Him in to deal with whatever the hurt is.
2. Trust Jesus’s Solution
You can’t give it to Him, but then take it back because you don’t think He’s handling it the right way.
Disclaimer: If you’re currently learning the basics of who Jesus is, then know it’s okay if that does happen. Trust takes time to build. It’s a process.
At the end of the day, though, Jesus knows the best way to bring healing. And like a lot of things God does, it likely won’t go the way you’re picturing it.
You need to trust Him with how you need to be healed. All wounds are different. We, as people, are different. So we can’t compare our healing, even in a very similar area, to someone else’s.
And we can’t place our expectations on God.
Jesus will be faithful.
3. Trust Jesus’s Perspective
By perspective, I mean the fact that Jesus sees a much, much bigger picture than we (little humans) do.
And God the Father is the only one who knows everything - such as when Jesus will return.
The tricky thing I’ve discovered about growing in the Lord - being healed, maturing, learning who I am, being freed from things holding me back or clouding my vision - is that because I’m where I am, I can’t see where I am.
Think of it like this: When you want to learn a new skill, you seek out an expert who knows everything about that skill.
Even things you don’t even know that you need to know.
And it’s only by entering into a relationship with that expert (buying their course, listening to their podcast, becoming their intern) that you also begin to understand where you are on your journey.
Because we need someone who is a father along, who has walked that road, to help give us that larger picture and perspective.
Jesus knows where we need to go; who we were created to be; and how we need to be healed, matured, developed, set free, etc. He has a much bigger picture than we do.
Sometimes, He lets us in on what’s happening or gives us a short-range view of where we’re headed. But, most of the time, we’re walking forward in faith. Trusting Him.
There’s been a lot of times in my 20+ years journey with Jesus where I really wanted something to be healed or handled one way, only to realize later, when I was farther along, that He didn’t do it that way because He had much bigger plans - for me and for the women He eventually called me to serve.
