If we want to help someone with their unresolved issues, we must first deal with our own. If the medicine we’re offering hasn’t made us whole, we’ll have very little credibility when we try to use it to help someone else. Does that mean if we have unresolved issues, God won’t use us? No, it’s the broken who become masters at mending. But first we must take time to be healed.

It’s hard to talk about victory to someone else when we’re experiencing defeat. When we’re bleeding spiritually and emotionally, we can’t treat people’s problems with the same kind of aggressive faith we would have if we’d already worked through our problem. Is it wrong to have a broken heart? No, because God ‘heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.’ Let’s allow God to make us whole so He can use us.

In Old Testament times, you couldn’t serve as a priest if you had a scab, which is an unhealed wound. This is why: 1) You wouldn’t be up to par spiritually. 2) You couldn’t get close to others in case they bumped into you and knocked the protective cover off your scab. 3) You couldn’t be at your best because the pain was sapping your strength. 4) You’d be afraid to talk about your scab in case people rejected you, so you’d live on two levels, and become insecure, hypocritical, or controlling. 5) Worst of all, you’d be so busy working for God and taking care of others, you wouldn’t have time to stop and take care of yourself. So today’s reminder is: take any unresolved issues to God, and let Him help you deal with them.

What Now?

Are you carrying any old wounds or unresolved problems? Don’t let the day end without talking to God about them. Even if you can’t quite manage to let go of them today, you’ll have taken the first step to freedom by bringing them to Him!