Woundedness healed in a soul is:
1.
The seal of the
Spirit’s redemptive work. Restoration is the Spirit’s seal of efficacy on a living soul
desiring life through surrender before the Lord Jesus.
2.
Evidence of a
restorative miracle only God could do. No other power
is able to wring such a thing as to transform a vessel for sustained good
through service.
3.
The bringing of
the Incarnation alive in them. The way to meet Jesus is by the way Jesus is
known; through the mode of suffering and of peace, even in that suffering. Only
a God who suffers with us without suffering can help us see how our suffering
with others can help them.
4.
A qualification
for ministry. Few ministers can prove effective without embodying the
Incarnation — having a taste of his suffering, and God’s delivery.
5.
Reason for all
the saints to rejoice. Although some will inevitably be envious (for better or for
worse), it no less abides on a believer’s heart, the power of God to restore a
vessel to the grace of antiquity. It ought always to be celebrated with praise.
6.
A promise of the
grace resident through that vessel. In the same
Incarnational tradition, grace is known in the touch of the wounded healer’s
soul as they touch another’s.
7.
The embodiment
of a promissory note for the procurement of compassion. They are able to
‘make good’ on the obligation of compassion, unless, of course, compassion
fatigue sets in. Then rest is the only solution. (Sabbath is crucial in guarding
against and warding off compassion fatigue.)
8.
Merely the sign,
also, of a need to constantly press-in on the Spirit for ongoing healing; for
fresh hurts. Living in the world of relationships will bring hurts; hurts
that must be healed. The wounded healer is not beyond being hurt. The benefit
the wounded healer has is the faithfulness of God in having witnessed the
effect of healing in their mortal
being. They ever believe in God’s healing power.
9.
Evidence of a
childlike faith in relational dynamics: with such a
committed approach to loving with the truth, the wounded healer is threatened by nobody and can
threaten no one. They are as a child in ways of being within their
relationships. They seek for the best.
10. Sadly, a target of the enemy. A thing we need to be continually aware of in those who have
been gifted the healing of their woundedness is their soul’s conspicuousness
within the spiritual realms — both good and evil. The wounded healer’s spiritual health is vulnerable the same as
any other’s.
God restores the wounded so they
may show others healing in Jesus’ name.
God restores the wounded for glory’s
sake.
© 2015 Steve Wickham.
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