God's Healing Power

God's Healing Power

"Blows and wounds cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being."
Proverbs 20:30

This past year my wife slipped and fell on some ice in our driveway and broke her hip and her shoulder. After a stay in the hospital of about 10 days, she is now on the road to recovery. A couple of days after her fall, her arm and hip became black and blue from the fall. Some people worry about the black and blue marks of a bruise, but those marks are actually symptomatic of the healing process. The blue is the rich oxygen of the arterial blood that brings in new supplies and healing materials of the body's first aid kit. Then the red venal blood carries out the damaged cells and waste products. This makes me think about the blood of Jesus, that also had a twofold healing purpose. It cleanses us of sin and waste, and it also brings in the freshness of His love into our lives. Christ's blood is one of the most powerful cleansing agents know to mankind. His blood does more than whitewash our hearts, it purifies it from the inside out. Christ's precious blood purifies our hearts so completely that we become like Him and are temples of God. When Jesus was confronted by the Pharisees, He told them, "You are clean on the outside, but your hearts are like the insides of tombs, filled with death." The question I have for you today is, "What do you want to be? A tomb of death or a temple of God. Jesus can heal all your wounds today, if only you will ask Him to come into your heart. He can remove all the sins from your life and refresh and make you anew. He will remove all the black and blue scars from your life and give you a new one.