“For I bear on my body the scars that show I belong to Jesus.” John 15:5
While life brings its share of physical scars from injuries, there are also inner scars that come from what somebody said, from a failure we made, from the loss of a loved one.
So often we try to hide our scars from those wounds. They remind us of the hurt. But we need to see our scars in a new light. God allowed that scar to remind us of what He brought us through.
The scar means the wound has healed, the pain is over, and we are moving forward.
We can be at peace with our scars. Those scars tell our story. No one in the scripture fulfilled their destiny without scars. We all get wounded. The scar is proof that God healed us. The scar reminds us of the greatness of God.
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