Our Healer Of Our Incurable Wounds (Jer 30:12,17; 1 John 3:5 6) (Healing)
Our incurable wound is that we cannot ever be clean. All our efforts to be good, kind or generous in some way serve our desire to prove how good we are compared perhaps to others who are not trying to be as good as we are. In this way we feel, we may not be perfect but at least we are better than most others. But God does not grade our habits on a curve. It is strictly clear that all our good efforts are like proudly presenting God with a dirty diaper. This is why today’s texts are so important. The Jeremiah reading shows how desperate we are for healing. The 1 John text shows why Christ is our solution. And of course His solution is absolution. When Jesus absolves you, He is the sponge who absorbs your messy diaper into Himself. So trust the only one who can cure your incurable would by taking your sinful self into His innocent body.
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