My heart needs a surgeon, my soul needs a friend – Run to the father 

During my life, I’ve come across lots of people that have an opinion about Jesus or claim to know Him. The ideas I refer to are mostly negative and not even close to the truth. If you are one of those people that think to know Jesus and if this opinion carries a negative connotation, let me reintroduce Him to you: 

As a surgeon. 

Someone that operates on people to heal wounds. 

Psychological treatment is very helpful and necessary, but unable to truly heal emotional wounds. I learned a lot of tools to deal with emotions, thought patterns, and toxic behaviours. But none of these treatments were able to heal the trauma that was underneath. 

However, Jesus is able, because the one who made your heart is the only one that has the ability to heal your heart. 

He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds. – Psalm 147:3

In practice, this healing is achieved by letting Him in. Let Him reintroduce Himself as a healer and learn to express your pain to Him. He will lead you toward your healing through His word (the bible) and His presence. 

I know a lot of people that walk through life with deep emotional pain and shrug it away as ‘ this is life’. Pain is certainly a part of life here on earth, however, your life does not have to be marked or defined by pain. 

Jesus sees your hurt and cares about you. 

He will heal you or He will give you the strength to endure the emotional pain you are experiencing. 

He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak – Isaiah 40:29 

I want to apologize to you if the world gave you a wrong perception of who Jesus is.  

We refer to the gospel as good news. This is because Jesus is the good news. Yes, He died on the cross for our sins so we can be made right with God. 

But, He also experienced enough pain while being here on earth to understand you. 

We serve a God that felt emotional pain (Matthew 26:38), cares for our emotional pain, and has the ability to heal our emotional pain. 

Your life does not have to be marked or defined by pain.

Your redeemer is alive.