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Bone-deep bandaids

by Bruce Wadd 

 

Yep, that’s right… they just don’t exist! 

 

Band-aids are such important things for kids when they have grazed a knee or pricked a finger.  They not only assist with the wound healing, but also provide assurance for the damaged heart, telling the young one things are going to be OK.

 

Would you use a band-aid, though, if you came across a person that had tripped and gashed their leg on a sharp rock, or fallen and broken their arm causing the bone to poke through the skin?  Of course not! These injuries need much greater and more careful attention for proper healing to occur.

 

You can’t heal deep wounds with band-aids… it just doesn’t work!   

 

But how many times do I come across people that have had significant wounds in their life (emotional or spiritual or even physical), and they try and attach a band-aid – self-reliance, avoidance, anger, running away, perfection etc!

 

There is only one answer for all the hurt and pain in people’s lives, including yours – Jesus Christ!  To follow His leading, through the Holy Spirit, is the way to healing and peace.

 

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. 

No one can get to the Father except by means of me.”  John 14:6

 

That’s right, here is the eternal solution (band-aid) to all the pain and suffering!

 

TODAY, let God be your band-aid!

 

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