12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.” 14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. ~ Matthew 21:12-14
Notice what Jesus did before He healed anybody? He cleaned out all the filth. He got rid of all that was polluting the temple before He could heal the people around the temple. Jesus had to get to the root of the problem first.
So many of us have a root problem that we’re not addressing in our lives that is keeping us from getting our healing. Maybe it’s a childhood wound that we’ve put a Band-Aid on and never thought about again. Maybe it’s a relationship that hurt you or caused you to change for the worst. Maybe it’s something you did that you can’t forgive yourself for. Whatever it may be, we have to take it to God first so that He can clean it.
If it was important for Jesus to cleanse the physical temple before He healed anyone, how much more important is it for Him to cleanse the spiritual temple before He heals anyone? Think about it like this, when we were kids, if we got hurt, we ran to our parents because we knew they could make it better. We are now the children of God, and we have to run to our Heavenly Father so that He can fix it. There’s no wound too deep or shame too strong for God to heal.
LORD Jesus, I know that You have taken all my pain, suffering, sin, shame, and regret upon Yourself. I know that You can heal any wound, but help me to believe it with everything inside of me. Help me to not just know the Scripture but to believe them and put them into action. Clean out the root pain in me that has kept me in bondage for too long. Prepare me, Oh LORD, to be healed and set free. Help me to accept Your love, grace, forgiveness, and healing. In Jesus’ name, I pray, amen.
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