Scar Tissue

Scar tissue forms whenever our body’s tissue is damaged. 
When something hurts us we want immediate newness and fixing. But healing doesn’t happen over night. Some wounds heal but scar tissue remains. We want God to fix us and heal us quickly without pain but that is not reality. Sometimes what is stopping us from healing is the fact that we haven’t dealt with and accepted our wounds. 

Scar tissue is something my family has dealt with firsthand over these past few months. Stewart’s accident has caused a great deal of thick scar tissue on a large portion of her leg. 
What we’ve realized is Stewart needed to work through the emotional scar tissue just as much as she did the physical scar tissue. She had to fully accept the accident and everything that came with it, in order to move on. 
God is to be trusted because He IS the Great Physician. 

To overcome scar tissue we must trust in God instead of ourselves. Proverbs 3:5-6 says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” At all times we should trust in Him and follow His lead. 
Secondly, we must stay in the present moment and think on the future. Instead of focusing on the past, we need to focus solely on what God is doing in our lives at that current time. We need to let go of the past and accept that it is over. Philippians 4:8 says, “Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”  
And lastly, we must believe our wounds can make us stronger. 2 Corinthians 12:10 says, “For the sake of Christ then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” 

Your past hurt and pain can give someone else a future. God does not want us to be damaged or paralyzed by the past. However, He doesn’t waste one experience in our lives--everything is used to help someone else. In the Bible over and over again He picks the imperfect people, those who have been physically and emotionally wounded. He prepares them to serve and sends them out, with their weakness still showing, so that His strength can be made perfect in that weakness. God works in us so that He can work through us. 

2 Corinthians 1:4 "..who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God."

I challenge you to face the fears that come with overcoming your own scar tissue and set out to find the people who God has planned for your past to influence--show them how their scar tissue can make them stronger in their walk with Christ.