HELEN SANDERS
12-2-2025
WOUNDS

There are so many people that have been wounded physically and emotionally, and hurt deeply, often by friends and family. These wounds [hurts] must be healed, or they will keep one in bondage.

Jesus knows all about wounds. Isaiah 53:5 says, “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes[wounds] we are healed.”

In Isaiah 61 we see Jesus’ purpose for his wounds and for those that are wounded, broken, mourning, and hurt. It reads: Verse 1: "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.”

Jesus came to bind up that hurt, that broken heart and set you free. When you lay the hurt on the altar and give it to Jesus, he comes to you and binds you up.

The word bind means: “to wrap firmly, to heal, to gird about; to stop.” Can’t you just see Jesus wrapping his arms around you, stopping the pain, and setting you free?

Verse 3: “To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.”

When we place our hurts, wounds, sorrows, depression on the altar of God, he burns them up. Then he takes those ashes and makes something beautiful out of them. He calls us trees of righteousness, my friend, planted by the Lord himself so that he might be glorified.

So, let go of the hurt, the sorrow, and the pain, all of the wounds. Give them to God, and go forward knowing that God has his arms around you and has unloosed you from it all.