Wounds that Heal: Bringing Our Hurts to the Cross (Biblia.com)

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"By his wounds we are healed"—Isaiah 53:5. We are wounded people. In this fallen world, people are hurt and exploited. Children are abused. Marriages are broken. Tragedies of all kinds afflict us and the ones we love. Woundedness, it seems, is simply a fact of life. But we are not alone in our suffering. Despite our emotional, psychological and physical injuries, God has not abandoned us. God...

to get involved. Jesus, the Eternal Word of God, has “become flesh and lived among us” (John 1:14). He is Emmanuel, which means God with us (Matthew 1:23); and at the cross, the depth of his involvement with us is fully revealed. On the cross, Jesus personally experienced the full range of human suffering. Pastoral theologian Frank Lake puts it like this: “It is an astonishing fact that the events of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ portray every variety of human suffering and evil.”3 He points out

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