The sermon in church today was on how God heals our scars.
We have all experienced some kind of physical injury growing up that maybe left a scar behind. I believe God gives us those scars as markers to help us connect with our past as we continue to grow in the future.
Emotional scars are even more painful sometimes because they remain hidden unlike physical scars. One of the hardest emotional scars to get over is the loss of a loved one through death or separation.
Emotional scars can distance one from God but God can use that scar to heal you and others too if you let him. He did that with his son Jesus when he appeared to Thomas after his resurrection. Thomas had heard that Jesus had resurrected from the dead but he would not believe until he saw the nail marks in his hands and put his finger where the nails were.
Thomas needed to see Jesus’ scars to believe. What about you; Do you need your emotional or physical scars to believe in Jesus?
Your scar may bring you closer to Jesus or it may lead to others being healed of their scars. Whatever it is I pray that you will find healing in the midst of pain.
Read John 20
“Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”
Community of Faith; trying to understand what it means to have a relationship with God. 