Attending To The Wounds

How do we recognize areas of need...places of deep hurt, of fear, pain, and opportunities to offer redemptive hope...?? We look towards the wound. It is easy to find...it is where The Enemy has been staking out his territory. You see, he swarms to wounds like a fly to death. Maybe instead of merely battling him away, we can first follow the wound as well. Attending first to the wounds just makes sense. An analogy i just read in an article paints the picture quite well: If you get cut and the wound is gaping open and the flies are already swarming, you don't go and try to ward off the flies, right? Instead you attend to the wound so that the flies don't have any access...they don't have a way in. Its the same for every other kind of wound. Satan points us right to those that need healing! Or, even within our own selves, we can easily see where we are wounded and need healing because we the first to know where Satan is trying to land and invade. He obviously sees that it is not secure and that he has an opening. Let's be diligent in closing those doors to him...and allowing God to perform only what he can do...the FULL restoration of particular areas of wounding. For the sake of giving God our all...lets not stay broken and less of what we can be for and in Christ.

The more i try to learn and grasp the concept of interdependency, the more i wonder what it would be like to go back to being just dependent on only myself. I would save myself alot of hurt from others. I wouldn't have to give so much of myself or die so often to myself. I wouldn't have to place so much dependency on God! And the truth is...i would regress to a state of former brokenness. Life would be just that: living for myself. Holding back the all of my faith and not truly living for God. I have to remember that this redemptive living is a process. Attending to the wounds is a process...lets not make the mistake of believing the lie that we no longer have any wounds to attend to. Let us take a humble stance in allowing God to examine our hearts and motives...to step into the light so that the darkness has a chance to fade away.