{"id":697,"date":"2011-07-14T22:39:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T22:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=697"},"modified":"2011-07-14T22:40:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T22:40:07","slug":"god%e2%80%99s-wounding-and-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"God`s wounding and healing"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/strong>\u201cI wound and I heal.\u201d\u2013Deut. 32:39<\/a>
\nIt is no little comfort to the afflicted child of God to be thus
\ndivinely assured that both the wounding and the healing flow
\nfrom one Hand\u2013that Hand a Father\u2019s. The sword that
\nwounds\u2013\u201dbathed in heaven\u201d\u2013bears upon its point the balm that
\nheals. Meditate awhile, my soul, upon this wondrous truth; and
\nshould you, like the stricken deer, endure your wound in solitude,
\nthe assurance that He who smites is He who heals, may rouse you
\nfrom your lonely sorrow, and draw you closer to the heart of Him
\n\u201cby whose stripes we are healed.\u201d
\n\u201cI wound.\u201d What majesty in these words! How worthy of Him
\nwho is the sovereign disposer of sickness and health, of life and
\ndeath, from whose belt hang the keys of the grave and of Hades.
\nTo His Hand, O my soul, trace the wound which now fills you
\nwith sore pain and grief. What is the sword? Is it the visitation of
\nbereavement\u2013the decay of health\u2013the loss of wealth\u2013the
\nfickleness of friends\u2013the unkindness of other believers\u2013or the
\ntaunt and cruel slanders and reproaches of the world? Rise above
\nthe sword that has pierced you, and see only the Hand that holds
\nand controls it. \u201cI wound.\u201d It is a loving Father\u2019s voice. O Lord, I
\nlose more than half my sorrow when I hear Your voice, \u201cIt is I,\u201d
\nand when faith responds\u2013\u201dHe Himself has done it.\u201d
\nAnd whose Hand inflicts the spiritual wound? Who convinces of
\nsin\u2013gives the broken heart\u2013imparts the humble, contrite spirit\u2013
\nand brings the soul to His feet with the prayer, \u201cGod be merciful to
\nme the sinner.\u201d Still the language is\u2013\u201dI wound.\u201d Then, Lord, let the
\n\u201csword of the Spirit\u201d pierce me through and through, might it but
\npenetrate the deep-seated evil of my heart, revealing to me more
\nof my sinfulness, thus preparing me for the touch of that Hand
\nthat heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
\n\u201cAnd I heal.\u201d Blessed Lord! Who can heal the wounded spirit\u2013
\nwho can bind up the broken heart but Yourself? My wound is too fresh, my sore too tender, my sorrow too deep, for any hand
\nbut Yours to touch. Lord, Your wounds are my healing\u2013Your
\nblood my balm\u2013Your soul-sorrow my heart\u2019s joy. Keep me from a
\nfalse healing. Let Your blood be the only balsam of my wounded
\nconscience; let Your love be the only solace of my troubled spirit.
\nPrecious Jesus! smite and bruise me as You will, may but the
\nhand that bears in its palm the scar of the nail pour the wine and
\nthe oil of Your love into my bleeding, sorrowing heart. \u201cHeal me,
\nO Lord, and I shall be healed.\u201d
\nBut, perhaps, your wound is self-inflicted, and the consciousness
\nof this keeps you back from Christ. Your own hand has pierced
\nyou! You have sadly departed from God, have wilfully sinned
\nagainst conviction, against your own conscience; against so much
\ndivine love experienced, so much covenant mercy received, so
\nmany rich blessings given, so many sins pardoned and
\nbackslidings healed, and wanderings restored. Be it so. Still the
\nlanguage of God is\u2013\u201dAnd I said after she had done all these things, Turn
\nunto Me.\u201d \u201cI will heal their backslidings, I will love them freely\u2013for my
\nanger is turned away from him.\u201d Bring, then, these wounds to Jesus
\nwhich your own or another\u2019s hand has inflicted; and with the
\nbalm that flows from His own pierced heart, He will heal you. \u201cO
\nIsrael, you have destroyed yourself, but in Me is your help found.\u201d Oh,
\nremember that there can be no wound too deep or too desperate
\nfor Christ\u2019s healing, loving touch.
\nOctavius Winslow<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI wound and I heal.\u201d\u2013Deut. 32:39 It is no little comfort to the afflicted child of God to be thus divinely assured that both the wounding and the healing flow from one Hand\u2013that Hand a Father\u2019s. The sword that wounds\u2013\u201dbathed in heaven\u201d\u2013bears upon its point the balm that heals. Meditate awhile, my soul, upon this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}