Healing. Thursday March 10. Lent 2011.

Jesus is funny sometimes. 

I was at the gym listening to this song. 

My mind started spinning and related this song, by The Offspring, to our lives. 

It is called Fix You and it really is such a beautiful song and such a cry for help.

The cry that is alive in all of our hearts.

“…I wish I could fix you
And make you how I want you
I wish I could fix you
And I wish you could fix me

I wish I could heal you
And mend where you are broken
I wish I could heal you
And I wish you could heal me…

She sees a million stars, like holes in the sky
All God’s tears for her they cry
And I am in her rain”

In this song, Dexter Holland is crying out.

Someone he knows is hurting.

He is hurting for his friend.

He is hurting because his friend is hurting.

He is hurting because he cannot heal that person.

He knows in his humanness that he can do nothing to heal or fix this person.

I think it would be safe to assume we have all been in situations where we want to just simply make everything better for someone.  Even if it is something as simple as trying to comfort a toddler who has fallen or if it is something more serious such as a friend going through depression.  It is so very painful to see someone in pain and know you can do nothing to help them.

Mother Mary knows this all too well.  She was strong enough, bold enough to go to the foot of the cross where Her Son was bruised and beaten and then innocently hung on the cross and left to die.  The movie The Passion presents this scene of the crucifixion so well.  Mary helplessly kneels at the foot of the cross while gripping the gravel of Calvary with her face writhing in pain.  The pain of watching Her Son die and yet still, the greater pain of KNOWING She can do NOTHING to help Him.

Among all this pain and sorrow there is still hope.

That hope is Jesus Christ.  He alone can heal you. He alone can fix you. He alone is sufficient.  He IS love, of course He can heal, fix, and restore.

We are all broken. We are all torn apart.  We are all in need of healing.  We need to be fixed.  We need to be touched by the healing grace of the Healer. 

Bring all your brokenness to the foot of the cross this Lent.  Jesus is the ultimate healer.  He can mend where you are broken.  He can fix you. Run to Him with your broken heart.  Run to Him with all your sorrows.  Take time this Lent to humble yourself down to the most broken area of your heart and let the Savior heal you and fix you.  He will not let you down.  Unlike us, He DOES have the power to heal. 

Jesus IS the healer. 

Go.

Run.

Be healed.

“So you thought you had to keep this up
All the work that you do
So we think that you're good
And you can't believe it's not enough
All the walls you built up
Are just glass on the outside

So let 'em fall down
There's freedom waiting in the sound
When you let your walls fall to the ground
We're here now

This is where the healing begins, oh
This is where the healing starts
When you come to where you're broken within
The light meets the dark
The light meets the dark

Afraid to let your secrets out
Everything that you hide
Can come crashing through the door now
But too scared to face all your fear
So you hide but you find
That the shame won't disappear

So let it fall down
There's freedom waiting in the sound
When you let your walls fall to the ground
We're here now
We're here now, oh

This is where the healing begins, oh
This is where the healing starts
When you come to where you're broken within
The light meets the dark
The light meets the dark

Sparks will fly as grace collides
With the dark inside of us
So please don't fight
This coming light
Let this blood come cover us
His blood can cover us

This is where the healing begins, oh
This is where the healing starts
When you come to where you're broken within
The light meets the dark
The light meets the dark”

Tenth Avenue North-

Healing Begins