Contrary to human opinion, time does not heal all wounds, yet there is no time like now to receive the healing in Christ, a healing which heal us wherever we hurt:
"For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation
have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now
is the day of salvation." (2 Corinthians 6: 2)
Salvation through Jesus Christ, was prophesied by Isaiah:
"Surely he hath borne
our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of
God, and afflicted.
"But he was
wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are
healed. " (Isaiah 53: 4-5)
We do not have to wait for our healing, but by receiving God's grace, shed abroad to the whole world through the death of His Son, we can receive His healing:
"For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men," (Titus 2: 11)
and
"That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one
all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth;
even in him:" (Ephesians 1: 10)
and
"But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a
woman, made under the law." (Galatians 4: 4)
Even Proverbs prophesies of Christ's healing through His wounds:
"Faithful are
the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful." (Proverbs 27: 6)
and
"The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward
parts of the belly." (Proverbs 20: 30)
How else could stripes, or whippings, cleanse a man's inward parts unless the verse refers to the stripes which Jesus took for us, cleansing us from all our sin.
Jesus' wounds, timely and timeless, heal us -- and we do not have to wait for this healing!
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