Heroes = Wounded

I recently pos­ted about our need to allow the Wounds we carry to heal and beco­mes Scars. (Post Here: From Wounds to Scars)   By allo­wing hea­ling to come into the deep pla­ces of our heart  we can move for­ward into what which God has pur­po­sed for our lives.  We must stop pic­king at the scabs of our woun­ded pla­ces and let the Lord bring hea­ling and restoration…to let the scar form.

There is power in the Wound. It brings an immense amount of damage and pain into our lives.  It results in bag­gage that even­tually beco­mes too much for one to bear.  It can overwhelm and des­troy the very essence of who we were desig­ned to be.  The Wound can be fatal if we allow it.  The power of the Wound is the very power to des­troy who we are and who we are desig­ned to be.

There is power in the Scar. It brings with it a story of hea­ling and res­to­ra­tion.  The Scar pro­ves to the world that we have lived, loved, fallen and risen up, triumphed and fai­led.  The Scar sig­ni­fies the change from being Wal­king Woun­ded to beco­ming a Bro­ken Healer.

Rarely has one met a Hero who was NOT woun­ded.  Warriors, even the best of the best, get woun­ded.  It comes with the terri­tory.  And many times it means figh­ting through the pain of that wound to reach the final objec­tive, which may simply be one’s own sur­vi­val.  We have a great many heroes retur­ning from Iraq and Afgha­nis­tan and we should com­mend them for their sac­ri­fice.  But we must never for­get that our daily battle lies in the spi­ri­tual realm.and that there are for­ces set on our des­truc­tion.  It is in the battle that wounds come and wreak havoc on our lives.

Scars open the door so that our lives can touch others.  When we allow the Father to work hea­ling we become His con­duits and impact lives around us.  This does not mean we wait until “after” we are hea­led.    If we wait until we find com­plete and total healing.…it will never come…because the war­fare never stops.  “Stick a ban­dage on it doc so I can get back to my pla­toon.”  We heal as we fight.

Today I ran across the follo­wing post, The Silence of God, on internetmonk.com and thought it tied in nicely.  When we begin to ask the “Why?” ques­tions it some­ti­mes is follo­wed with a lot of silence.  I used the word “ambi­guity” in the pre­vious post but so much of the time it is simply silence.  And in this moment we can find our­sel­ves repea­tedly tur­ning to “Why?” once again.   The per­cep­tion that God is silent works against us if we let it.   If we allow, it can become a spi­ra­ling des­cent into emo­tio­nal hell.  It can drive us further from the Father.

“For the reve­la­tion awaits an appoin­ted time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it lin­ger, wait for it; it will cer­tainly come and will not delay.” (Habak­kuk 2:3, NIV)