WE TEND TO OUR WOUNDS | WITH KAYA COCOE (WE ALL WEEP DEVOTIONAL SERIES) DAY 1 OF 3

 

WE TEND TO OUR WOUNDS

The bones may break; the wounds may sore but thank God He alone heals the body, mind, and spirit.

Something deeper than just a wound is the wound of the mind, the body, or the spirit. Not all wounds are visible and there are others so painful, it remains covered only to get worse. It is often the joyous moments that end in tears no one sees that contributes to a wound that has not been healed. It is the quiet moments of fear that enter the heart, doubting self and God, lacking confidence in what God can do, not knowing when the breakthrough will take effect...these also are wounds of the mind, body, and spirit. It is the hurt that keeps on hurting until you lose feeling.

There has to be only one thing that can come to our thoughts when faced with such pain and that is if it will heal? Not when, where, or even how?

Can God do for me that which I cannot do for myself? Is God good? Can I trust God with this type of pain?

These questions take a deep dive into our current state rather that it is justified or unjustified, we are to not go by what we are feeling, because feelings are fleeting and do not tell of our faith but the counter of what we are experiencing. Yet, not to invalidate our feelings, but to adjust them in the lens of hope. For our hope is a steady running river.

Times have proven to us nothing if we still operate from a place of doubt, the only progress we have is that movement in faith. Take an inventory, mentally...where do you stand? What has worked and what hasn't? Was it not the times you moved in full faith in God even the size of a mustard seed?

I am sure, now, that mustard-seed faith has blossomed into a measure so bountiful that it is just like the Scripture says, "another parable put he forth unto them, saying, the Kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." (Matthew 13:31-32)

The mustard seed, least of all the seeds...and yet it brings forth into a tree that provides a place for birds to lodge in. What is your faith producing? Where in your faith has it made room for provision?

Be moved today, to not tend to your wounds...the wounds that no one else sees that no one will ever see. God knows how to get you out, but first you have to realize what you are in. If you are trying to heal yourself, be sure to create a way for that wound to have never existed. Right? We both know that is not the case...we cannot even heal ourselves; our bodies heal by God's design. Let us not think for a moment we can heal what is unseen but felt. 

It is our plea after we have hoped, after we have cried out that our faith not be in vain, so healing is possible and our shame undone. 

"Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope." (Psalm 119:116)

ABOUT "WE ALL WEEP" 3-DAY DEVOTIONAL SERIES

A Purposeful look into the painful realities we find ourselves in and how God takes care of us in the midst of tears. This devotional focuses on those hush moments, where no one sees that which is burdened underneath. Though it is present, it does not mean it will not heal. For Jesus, by his wounds we are healed, because he chose to become our Healer.

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