Wounds

A wound draws attention. It demands attention. Overwhelming pain is felt. The mind is overloaded with thoughts and feelings. The soul is immediately and powerfully prompted into action. If one is cut, one isolates the cut, stops the bleeding, cleans the area to help prevent infection, and seals it. Careful and conscience care is taken to ensure healing and complete restoration. To do nothing is to ask for death. And not just death, but a painfully slow and gruesome decline.

Wounds of the body are obvious. We respond with our 5 physical senses. The spirit is different. One cannot visibly see the wounds and thus, they continue living ignorantly while the wounds vary in size and number, infection enters, and the inner person rots. Even though symptoms are present, (anger, depression, cowardice, lust, etc.) one chooses to suppress them because it is a bloody and wicked scene to peer into one's rotting self. We choose to walk by sight rather than faith and remain ignorant to our slow demise.

We must be awakened to our spirits and the Spirit by faith. We must be born again. This body of infection and death is beyond repair. There is no turning back. We must die. Who will resurrect us and bore us anew? Jesus Christ bids us come and die. Life begins with death on the cross.