"A Wounded Healer’s Heart"

A Christian’s Heart

“A Wounded Healer’s Heart”

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In our series on the heart of a Christian we’re looking at those qualities that every Christian needs and should have. Today’s is no exception; in fact, it’s vital in our sharing the good news of Jesus Christ.

The overall call that we’ve been given is to be like Christ, to follow Him and the example He lays out for us, which is what we’ve been studying throughout this series. This means that we need to have the heart of a wounded healer like Jesus Christ who identifies with human pain and suffering because He Himself was not only fully God, but fully human, thus becoming a channel for healing.

Jesus Christ through His brokenness and wounds heals our pain and binds up our wounds.

What we could say is that His power to heal is off the chain, it’s greater than all the medicines combined. His ability to speak peace into our hearts is greater than whatever peace the world can give, and His power brings joy that is greater than anything this world can ever offer.

Compassion and caring are at the heart of God; therefore, it needs to be a core ingredient of our hearts as well.

And the healing we need is on many levels. We are emotionally, physically, and spiritually wounded although many of us have become adept at hiding it being deceived by a spirit of deception.

Loneliness, despair, disappointment, discouragement, depression and/or aggression, all are symptoms of deep wounds that have never truly been healed, and while Jesus came to heal all our diseases, He has called those who are His people to be those healers as well, even though we’ve been wounded ourselves. Now, we don’t heal the people, what we do is point them to Jesus, who is the ultimate wounded healer.

The Lord reveals this about Jesus as the coming Messiah. He is the wounded healer of Isaiah 53.

“He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5 NKJV)

Jesus is the ultimate wounded healer. And when He walked upon the earth, He healed people of their hurts and diseases. He healed them not only physically, but also emotionally and spiritually as well.

Mark, in his gospel, said that Jesus “Healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons.” (Mark 1:34a NKJV)

We are also told of the coming Messiah that He would heal those who are brokenhearted in Isaiah 61:1, which is the passage Jesus used of His own ministry.

But why did Jesus have to become wounded to heal us? The reason is so that He can sympathize and help us through whatever we’re going through.

And what this means is that we don’t have to face the pain alone. The writer of Hebrews says this about Jesus.

“For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.” (Hebrews 4:15 NKJV)

How else could Jesus have been that perfect substitute sacrifice without going through it Himself.

Jesus took on the form of a human being, one with all its physical limitations. He chose to suffer, feeling the same pain; knowing the same grief; and being hurt just like us.

He is our wounded healer because He understands what it is to be hated, despised, rejected, abused, and to be an outcast even amongst His own people.

The prophet Isaiah said, “He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.” (Isaiah 53:3 NKJV)

And on top of it all He carried the sin and sorrow of the whole world as He hung upon the cross, taking our place and dying the death we all deserve as it says in Romans 6:23 that the wages of sin is death, and in Romans 3:22-23, the Apostle Paul said that all those who have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory can have eternal life through Jesus Christ by faith.

Jesus was beaten, bruised, and deeply wounded, so that He would be able to heal us of our sin, which is the most potent hurt of them all.

The Apostle Peter said, “He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; ‘by his wounds you have been healed.’” (1 Peter 2:24 NIV)

And so, we are to come to our wounded healer, Jesus, to be healed of our wounds; physically, emotionally, and spiritually.