Clean the Lens
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Psalm 147:3 (KJV)
“He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.”
The enemy loves an open wound. I have learned this from my own life, so let me tell you about it honestly. For a long time, and I want you to hear that I was a whole, committed Christian by this point, he used one particular open wound in me, my fear of rejection, to keep me trapped in a cycle of pain. The wound was old, but it was still raw, and as long as it stayed raw, it gave the enemy something to keep pressing on.
Let me give you a little picture. You can imagine my arm. If I got a deep cut on my arm, the blood would start to flow, and I would do the obvious thing: I would clean it, dress it, treat it, maybe go and get help for it. I would not just leave a gaping wound open and carry on as though it were nothing. And yet, do you understand, that is exactly what so many of us do with the unseen wounds of our soul. Because we cannot see them, we never address them. We sustain real injuries, from childhood, from the experiences of life, from things that were done to us, and we just keep going. That is what it means when the Word says, “out of the heart are the issues of life.” The issues are on the inside.
So how did I finally break out? It was not complicated, but it was profound. First, I exposed the wound to the Lord. I stopped hiding it, stopped managing it, and brought the real thing into His presence. Then I received His healing. I let Him do what Psalm 147:3 says He so loves to do. And then I renewed my mind with the Word, again and again, until His truth began to take the place of the old story. In the simplest terms: I stopped living by my experiences, and I started living by His description of me.
Hold onto the promise in this verse, because it gives us one of the gentlest pictures of God I know.
רָפָא rapha to heal – to mend, to cure, to restore to wholeness; the root of His name, Jehovah Rapha, the Lord who heals.
Can you imagine? He does not merely tolerate your broken heart. He heals it. He binds up the wound the way a tender physician carefully dresses what has been torn. Your wound is not too old, too deep, or too embarrassing for His healing hands. And He is not intimidated by the mess. He is not someone to run from with the broken parts of you; He is the One to run to.
And it matters so much that we let Him heal it, because an unhealed wound quietly distorts everything. Until you heal that original wound of rejection, life keeps reaching you through a cracked lens. Constructive criticism, meant to help you, lands like a personal attack. Someone setting a healthy boundary feels like abandonment all over again. Another person simply dealing with their own struggles feels like they are neglecting you. Even a different love language, just a different way of showing care, gets received as being ignored. None of these things are actually what your wound insists they are. But that is the trouble with a cracked lens: if the lens is cracked, the whole world looks broken, even when it isn’t.
Can I be vulnerable with you? I know this from the inside. I did not have the relationship I needed with my father growing up, and that left wounds in my soul, wounds that shaped how I related to people for years. My boundaries were not as strong as they should have been, and I got hurt in the process. I struggled with people-pleasing too, to the point where I would neglect and even abandon myself just to be accepted. Those were the very things I had to bring to the Lord. I had to go back, way back, and ask Him, “Lord, what is responsible for this? Where is the misalignment in my heart? I need healing.” Listen, there are some things in life that only the Lord Himself can heal: not a principle, not a method, but Him.
So here is the loving, freeing instruction: clean the lens. Do not spend your whole life trying to rearrange everyone else’s behaviour so that nothing ever brushes against your wound. Let the Healer mend the lens itself, and watch how much of the “rejection” you had been seeing simply disappears.
And as you bring that wound to Him, let His Word wash over the lie that rejection has been telling you. Pray these promises. Meditate on them until they are louder than the old voice. He “heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds” (Psalm 147:3). Even in the deepest abandonment, “when my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up” (Psalm 27:10). He adopts you as His very own. The stone “which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner” (Psalm 118:22). What people rejected, God made central. “The Lord will not cast off his people” (Psalm 94:14). And hear Him say it over you Himself: “I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away… Fear thou not; for I am with thee” (Isaiah 41:9-10). “To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved” (Ephesians 1:6).
That is who you are, and that is whose you are. Not rejected. Chosen. Not cast away. Kept. So bring Him the wound, receive His healing, and renew your mind until you stop living by your experiences and start living by His unshakeable description of you. Hallelujah! Clean the lens, and the whole world will begin to look the way it truly is: held in the hands of a God who has never once rejected you. And friend, before you go, I pray for you right now, that the love of God would touch you wherever you are, and heal your heart, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Pray The Word
Heavenly Father, You are Jehovah Rapha, the God who heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds, and today I bring You my wound of rejection without hiding it. I expose it to You, I receive Your healing, and I ask You to renew my mind with Your Word. Where my cracked lens has made me see attack, abandonment, and neglect that were never really there, heal my sight. I choose to stop living by my experiences and to start living by Your description of me, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Speak The Word
I am healed by Jehovah Rapha, who binds up every wound of my heart. I am not rejected; I am chosen by God, and He has not cast me away. I refuse to view my life through a cracked lens of rejection; my sight is being healed by the Word. I no longer live by my experiences; I live by God’s description of me. I am wanted, I am kept, and I am whole in Him, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth!
Soul Wellness: An Introduction To Receiving Healing In Your Heart
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