Proverbs 20:30
The
blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil:
so do
stripes the inward parts of the belly.
Wounds
hurt. We don’t particularly like to be
wounded but wounds help our priorities.
We can become rather insensitive and distracted when we don’t feel
things. Even feeling pain, keeps us
tender and open to others’ affliction and often cleanses away those things that
are unimportant and temporal. We read of
the psalmist’s declaration that “It is good for me that I have been
afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.” (Ps.119:71) When we are hurting we cry out to the Lord
and we set our eyes on Him. Our
intentions become more pure and our heart is not divided between a multitude of
pursuits. We need to let the afflictions
we face work a cleansing work within us.
We should bring our wounds to the Lord and ask Him to use them to do a
redeeming work in us. “Before I was
afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.” (Ps 119:67)
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