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The Healing Power of Time

Accidents happen. Heartbreak happens. No matter the nature or severity of the damage, the healing process will most likely be the same for both. Bone and tissue take time to knit back together. And hearts must take time to mend.

The medical profession has made great strides in so many things that prolong and better our lives, but no one yet has been able to hasten the time that it takes for our broken bodies and broken hearts to mend. No one.

Time.

That’s all.

It’s a sit and wait game.(And I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who hates that part.)

And this doesn’t just apply to physical or emotional ills, but to every kind of healing. Life is a battlefield and everybody at some point gets wounded – some worse than others – but we all will take gouges and bullets and shrapnel in places that maybe no one can see – except God, of course. Still…He uses time to heal us.

A friend of mine once told me that God is sometimes slow but never late. So true.

And so what about the scar that remains after the healing?

That part will fade, too, but even that takes time.

A scar = a long-lasting reminder of God’s precious gift of healing – in His time. Psalm 147: 3 and Ecclesiastes 3:11 have great news and places I go to for comfort

“He heals the brokenhearted
And binds up their wounds.”
“He has made everything beautiful in its time."