By NYASHADZAISHE RUSHWAYA
Time heals all wounds, is one of the most popular sayings, but it may not be exactly a healer, it can have healing purposes. Ultimately, though, it’s up to you to find ways to achieve healing during the time that passes after experiencing a wound.
I wish if I could call it a season that comes in life where one can experience losses be it its death, financial challenges, health challenges anything that comes your way which you would have not planned or thought of. Such a season can come and it will definitely pass and it’s there to develop a certain character that you will definitely use in the future.
Try not to feel guilty if you take more time to heal than you would have wanted. For everybody heals on their own timeline, so offer yourself grace and patience during this time.
While time does eventually heal some physical wounds people who rely on time to heal their emotional and spiritual wounds discover that time contains no lasting healing power.
In fact, time is so irrelevant to the healing of emotional and spiritual wounds. It does more harm than good because it misleads the anguished person into passively waiting in vain for time to take away the suffering.
Instead, the distraught person should be encouraged to make the best use of his time by actively seeking out true healing. The bible affirms that Jesus Christ offers believers this true healing in form of salvation, forgiveness and peace.
Relying on God and his word rather than time to heal our wounds is what our father wants us to do. For its only God who can heal all wounds. Many people carry around emotional and spiritual burdens that cause them great suffering and negatively impact the way they live their lives.
For some the burden of shame pushes them off the straight path, some the burden of anger blinds them from seeing well in anyone around them, while others the burden of regret keeps them from enjoying their days.
Psalm 147.3, teaches that God cares about our emotions and spiritual wounds and the psalmist proclaims that God heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds.
When we transform our hearts in this way and align our actions with the gospel message, Jesus promises that he is the way that will lead you out of shame.
Forgiveness helps heal wounds. When we suffer betray from someone we trust, it wounds us emotionally and can even fracture our faith.
I have an uncle who was working abroad for quite a long time and him being an engineer he had wealth and finance in abundance that whatever amount you could ask for you were sure to receive it.
One certain year he came back home found out that the people he trusted with his projects never did any of the things that they were promising he failed to forgive and ended up in depression.
It can be easy to justify living with an attitude of unforgivness towards someone who hurt us, especially if the offender is a close friend or family member. However, leaving with a spirit of forgiveness often deepens our hurt and causes physical problems such as hostility, anxiety, stress stomach ulcers, cardiovascular diseases.
Instead of choosing to punish your transgressor by bearing a grudge against them, use your time to cultivate a sense of forgiveness for the person who wronged you.
Forgiveness can be something you choose to communicate to the wrong doer, or it can be an attitude you adopt in refusing to let resentment build up in your heart instead of focusing on moving past the pain of betrayal.
Do your part to live in peace with others. Peace is something everyone clamors for. Whether the peace we seek is social, political or personal. Leaving in peace washes us with a sense of wellbeing and security for those who live with emotional and spiritual wounds they can find peace they so crave by looking to Jesus teachings on peace.
So the best way to respond to your life’s moments of pain and suffering is not to passively wait for time to heal your wounds but to actively follow the teachings of the Savior by whose wounds you will be healed (1 peter 2 ;24)
