When Jesus saw him, and
knew he had been lying there a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be
healed?”
Unforgiveness is one of
the most difficult feelings to be healed of. It is difficult because in
our pain we want the one who wounded us to feel ten times over our hurt and our
humiliation. We may fear that if we release this person from the
debt they owe us, then maybe we will never be freed from the pain of the
injury. Maybe we fear that it means that we somehow deserved to be hurt.
Jesus knows your pain, and He knows what this infirmity is doing to
you. He knows that it saps strength from your pursuit of holiness.
He wants to build each of us up in His perfect love. It
really is an epic struggle to allow Him to heal us from unforgiveness,
but take confidence His grace will prevail. It will prevail over the
Pharisees in our hearts and His great love will prevail over the fear that we
are not worthy of love and restoration.
Saviour, In your
loving gaze you see all my wounds, let your perfect love cast out all fear and
open my heart to your healing.
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