Title: The Wounded Healer (Isaiah 53:4-9)
Contents 1. There is a physical wound.
There are many people living around us with physical disabilities. Humans are constantly suffering from diseases from birth to the day they die. With advances in medicine, many diseases that were previously recognized as incurable diseases have been overcome, but new diseases are emerging and humans are suffering. Until the day of death, disease is terrifying to humans.
As such, there are diseases that the body suffers from, but there are wounds that appear outside the body. You, too, must have suffered a lot of wounds on your body in your lifetime. There are scratches from small to large. Some have cuts on their hands with knives when they were young, and some have bruises that have left behind them.
I also have burn wounds, knife cuts, and nail puncture wounds all over the place. Our son Jun-gyu has just passed away, but he also has three wounds only on his face. There are scratches from Seon-ah's nail and a scar on her forehead from hitting the wall. His chin remains scarred from rolling down stairs. There is no life without wounds.
A medical scientist was looking for a pure person who was born in his mother's womb and had no injuries. But there was hardly any way to find such a person. Even if it wasn't a big wound, everyone had one or two small wounds. Some even had hidden wounds in their heads. I met him because he said he had no wounds, and he also had a mark from the vaccination on his forearm. All human beings live their lives by suffering from internal and external diseases, wounds, and accumulating them throughout their lives.
2. I have a broken heart.
Even though our body may not have such an ugly wound in the eyes of others, everyone has a wound in the heart. Maybe the wounds on the heart are deeper than the wounds on the body. Even though the other person's words are insignificant, there are times when they remain as a scar that will last a lifetime.
Even among your family members, you can understand and understand each other because they are a family who eats rice in one pot and sleeps under the same blanket, but if such a relationship is not connected with love, the wound may be deeper. It can be said that the wounds between the couple are deeper. It is said that women often do not forget their wounds when they attack them with their parents. As husband and wife, we need to love and understand more deeply, but if that doesn't go well, the wound can be relatively deep.
As husbands and wives, there is a lot of resentment left when you live without being properly recognized by others. It is often said that our nation is a nation of many peoples. It must be a story that each family member has a lot of unforgettable wounds to each other. When I go to the countryside and listen to the words of the aunts, if I tell all the stories I have experienced, a few books will be enough. That's why there are so many.
No matter how others view you, if you think about yourself, you will have a lot of anger and a lot of things you want to tell. If human beings cannot express their sorrow, they accumulate inside and become sick. So am I and so are you. To you and me, there are deep sediments of wounds, big or small, more or less.
Among the pop singers, there is a man named Han Nam-seok who sang the song ‘The Woman Who Left At Night’. Hearing his confession on TV with me one night, he thought, 'You are a man of deep wounds.' He said he was the child his father did not want. So, since I was born, I was despised a lot by my father as an ugly child. At the same time, since his birth, his family has been on a steep decline, and his father has always said that it was because of him. That's why I couldn't pray all the time and lived with my breath.
All my life, my father never gave me a warm word or a face. My father became ill in old age and lay on the bed, and one day before his death, he went into his father's room. There were fruits that my father's friends had bought, and my father said in a weak voice, “Eat the mandarin oranges.” He doesn't know how much he cried after hearing that. It was the first time he had ever heard his father say. I had no idea how grateful I was for those words. The sadness that I had been receiving so far rose up all at once, and I cried endlessly.
Do you have no wounds? There are wounds from your husband and from your wife. There are scars left by parents on their children. There are wounds that children inflict on their parents. Our eldest brother passed away at the age of 26. I have never seen my parents weep over their pain. But I know that my mother cried a lot when she went out to the fields and tied the furrows.
3. Since you have given and received hurt, you should try to forgive.
If we hate each other, we will hurt each other in our hearts. Conversely, in human relationships, no matter how much you love each other, it is bound to hurt the other person. A man and a woman who loved each other could not get married and broke up. There was nothing wrong with them, but the man said to his friend: “I loved her with everything I had. But now it has rather hurt her.” That's right.
Even loving can sometimes hurt. But what can I do? If I was hurt by him, he was also hurt because of me. Those who have been hurt should try to forgive each other. In fact, wounds heal as much as you forgive. Rather, love can be healed when you love and forgive him.
Forgive me if my husband has made me sad and suffered pain in my life. As such, your husband must have been hurt through you. It may be that the parents are not satisfied and there may be pain from the wounds they have received in their lives. But forgive me. They have a tender heart to love you more than that hurt.
You will also have memories of feeling sad and hurt by your children. There will be times when you have toiled day and night with all your expectations, and the reward is hard work and a nail in your heart. Forgive me though. Have pity and forgive. Only then will your broken heart be healed.
There must be many unsatisfactory parts of your life of faith with me so far. But forgive me. I risked my conscience and never did it with malicious intent. And please love me more actively. I will forgive you too. I will forgive you for being sad and vulgar. I will pray and sacrifice more for you.
4. Jesus is the wounded healer.
Today's message is a prophecy about the coming Messiah 700 years before Jesus was born by the prophet Isaiah. Jesus came to this earth and was wounded and pierced.
“Surely he has borne our sorrows and borne our sorrows, but we thought that he was chastised, smitten by God, and afflicted. He was pierced for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities. By receiving him we have peace, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of our company” (Isaiah 53:4). -6)
Jesus came to this earth and was deeply wounded in body, soul and soul. He wore a crown of thorns on his head, leaving scars. Nails were nailed to his hands and feet, leaving scars. The back was stabbed with a spear, leaving scars. His whole body was whipped and bloodied. His wounds were deep as he was sold to the disciple of his heart. Even his beloved disciple, Peter, suffered because of his denial. Everyone wept in loneliness as they ran away.
Eli Eli Mara Sabachthani “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” The soul wailed. We are wounded people. But no matter how deep the wound is, it is not as deep as the pain Jesus suffered.
All the pain and wounds in the soul and body of Jesus were because of us. “He was pierced for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace; and by his wounds we are healed.”
In the Bible, the sufferings, wounds and pains that the Lord suffered on our behalf, so we can be free even if there are many pains and wounds in our real life today.
Although Jesus was wounded, he did not fall, and because he was wounded, he had deep love and sympathy for other wounded people and became a healer to the wounded. Jesus Christ is the wounded healer.
Dear saints, what is hurting you the most right now? There must be people who have physical wounds and suffering. Also, there will be people who are hurt in their financial life and face various difficulties. Some of you may have been hurt in your relationships.
Don't just caress the painful wounds and sigh. That's why I have pain, nevertheless, as I look at the cross of Jesus Christ, I should think of Him who suffered for me instead. Because the cross of Jesus Christ healed indescribable pain and wounds, those who look at the cross will overcome the pain. Because he suffered for me.
What kind of pain do you have? The only way to heal and solve it is through the cross of Christ. Jesus Christ is the healer who suffered for us. You have been wounded, and that is why He caresses and binds our wounds, He who heals our wounds is our Lord.
The church should be a community that shares the pain with those who are in pain, not to the extent that it hurts, and even goes to a place where they can be healed through Christ.