Jesus Approaches: What Contemporary Women Can Learn about Healing, Freedom & Joy from the Women of the New Testament by Elizabeth M. Kelly

Author:Elizabeth M. Kelly [Kelly, Elizabeth M.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: RELIGION / Christian Life/Women's Issues, REL012120, RELIGION / Spiritual Growth, REL006130, REL012130, RELIGION / Biblical Meditations/New Testament
ISBN: 9780829444728
Publisher: Loyola Press
Published: 2017-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

In chapel, I sat there crying and knowing that it’s you and it is all real, all of it, and I said, “I don’t know if you took that knife out of my heart or not—I didn’t feel anything—but I know you love me.”

And with perfect interior clarity, I heard Jesus say to me: “I didn’t take it out; I dissolved it.” I saw the knife in my mind’s eye instantly dissolving into vapor and disappearing. Poof! Gone. So he didn’t have to painfully rip it out of my chest. He found a perfect way to heal me—so much less scary and painful, and I thought, “Now, why didn’t I think of that?” And he smiled at me and said, “Because you’re not God, my dear.”

I still felt a slit of a sore spot there, like it still needed to mend and heal up, but it would heal so much more quickly now that the knife was gone. It would go better now, my healing would come more fully now. I was absolutely certain of it.

The next day, for morning prayer, I sat near a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I placed my hand on my heart—I swear it felt a little sore or tended to or something. I could almost feel the slit where the knife had been for so, so long. For most of my life. Just then, I looked up and noticed a little slit in the heart of Jesus, just like mine. I realized then that he had not only dissolved the knife, but he had also given me a new heart—the plan is and has always been that he would give me his heart.

Jesus always has a way—a better way, a perfect way, a way we cannot conceive of—to bring about our healing. The gentle Good Shepherd longs to carry us, worn out, wasted in sin and sorrow and sickness, to hold us close to his heart, to give us his very heart in exchange for our own. It is his identity, his delight, his very essence to do so.

Jesus wants to heal you. Do you believe it?

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