Most of the time I can find at least
five to ten bruises on my body, typically on my legs. Don’t know how I get them, probably
carelessness (I rush around a lot)- or I’m just forgetting what I hit- but they
are usually small. For me, the colouring
of my bruises go from yellowish green to purple in a couple days then back to
yellowish green.
A few days after the car accident in
which I hit my head on the left eyebrow, my left top eyelid was bruised and puffy,
not too horribly though. It kind of
reminded me of an old picture I have of me with two black eyes (bruised) from
jumping out of my crib. Oops! Bruises are interesting things. Some kind of trauma (contusion) happens to
the body and it responds by breaking blood vessels under the skin.
There are very few people on this planet
that haven’t been through some kind of trauma, and those personal traumas leave
marks in our lives that don’t always go away as fast as a bruise. Sometimes the bruising of our souls is so
profound that it leaves a huge mark that everyone around us can see. What do we do with our bruised and life
battered lives? We need to bring them to
Jesus!
(about Jesus: Mt. 3:17 ; 12:18 )
A bruised reed He shall not break, and a smoking wick He shall not quench; He
shall bring out judgment to truth. Is. 42:3 (also Mt. 12:20 )
But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised* for our iniquities; the
chastisement of our peace was on Him;
and with His stripes we ourselves are healed. Is. 53:5
There is hope for our bruised and
battered lives, and that hope is found in Jesus. Hope in man is futile for man is bound to
disappoint us (as we do others). Hope in
this life/ world will let us down almost every time. But Jesus is always here for us (Mt. 28:20)
even when times get tough (Is. 43:2).
Jesus will not fail us (Dt. 31;8) and every word will come to pass (Is.
55:11). He has already paid the ultimate
price for our healing- death on the cross.
He came for us, He lived for us, He died for us, He rose again that we
might have new life. In His words:
The
Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel
to the poor;
he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance
to the captives,
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty them
that are bruised,
Lk. 4:18 KJV
Praise You Jesus, King of Kings
and Lord of Lords!!!