Day 20 – The Wounds That Heal
Proverbs 20:30 (NIV) “Blows and wounds scrub away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being.”
It doesn’t take much to notice it.
A tree that’s been scarred by a storm often grows stronger on the other side.
The broken limb forces it to root deeper.
The stripped bark heals into a tougher surface.
What looked like loss becomes the reason it survives the next storm.
We don’t like wounds. We run from pain. But Scripture whispers a truth we don’t want to hear: sometimes God allows the blow to save us from ourselves.
David felt that blow when Nathan confronted him about Bathsheba (2 Samuel 12). It was humiliation wrapped in mercy. God wasn’t out to destroy him He was out to strip away the sin before it destroyed David.
The hardest truth to swallow?
The wounds God allows are rarely painless, but they’re always purposeful. They cut away the rot we’d rather keep.
Personal Application:
- Don’t despise the season that hurts; ask God what He’s cleansing from your life.
- Stop measuring God’s love by your comfort measure it by His commitment to your holiness.
- When correction stings, remember: healing hurts before it helps.
Prayer: Father, thank You for loving me enough to wound what’s killing me. Help me not to resist Your correction but to trust that every blow in Your hand is an act of mercy. Amen.
Seal the Day: “God’s discipline is never meant to destroy you; it is meant to protect you from what would.”