-Strength for Today- "Scars are Reminders of the Wounds We’ve Endured." - Psalm 143:1-7

    It’s a fact that life-altering emotional scars can be traumatically invasive. Therefore, it’s far easier to hide the fa?ade of emotional scars, due to the fact that the untrained eye can’t see the depth of this “unbalance mind-set breading.” On the other hand, with physical scars, once they fade they becomes a distant memory, something that happened and you’ve recovered. They become something you can embellish. But with “emotional scars”, they’re easier to hide, as long as there’s nothing:  

·       Emotionally,

·       Socially or 

·       Physically,

   Invading your space, that’ll lead to reopening something that wasn’t dealt with properly, and has become bigger than it needs to be.  So don’t let your emotional scars become excuses that’ll hinder what God has for your future.

    Because in His ultimate planning, He looked on the other side of your scar, and graced it with beauty of His presence.  I believe that in very moment, God is saying, “Come to me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” – Matthew 11:28.  

    God says this expressing that only He can bring absolute rest to our souls. From his book, “Man’s Search for Meaning,” written 1946, by Dr. Victor Frankl, M.D, PhD, a book that Dr. C. Goodrich shared with me 54 years ago, I still today:

·       Embrace the hope, that 

·       Dr. Frankl embellished when he said,

      “In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.” Therefore, that kind of confidence, in God through:

·       The saving grace of Jesus Christ and

·       The power of the Holy Spirit

    And His Word, is more than enough to satisfy our fragmented souls. Scars are reminders of the wounds we’ve endured. They trigger memories of the traumatic experiences we’d rather forget. We look at scars as being distastefully ugly. That’s why we’re driven to alter them, minimize them, or hide them. But even with all the “scar covering cream” in the world, emotional scars, apart from God’s healing hand will never completely fade.

     The good news is that God longs to transform the scars on your wounded heart into marks of beauty. He can use them to bless the world. Beauty marks are wounds that have been transformed into purpose. They remind you that God is redeeming what you’ve suffered and can heal you from the inside out. Maybe your heart feels as if it’s bleeding right now, and healing seems impossible. Trust that the God who created you and loves you is able to heal every broken place.

Author: Plez Lovelady, Jr., PhD