Three Wounds That Draw Us Closer To Jesus
The mysterious ways God leads us to His love
“A suffering soul is closest to My Heart.” — Jesus to St. Faustina
The wounds in our hearts are but openings by which the healing love of God can enter in…
It is not during the times when we were most confident that we experience the deepest intimacy. It is not when we feel most beautiful that we feel the most loved.
On the contrary, it is during the times when we are most down that we feel the warmest embrace. It is during the times when we feel most repulsive that we feel most accepted and cared for.
Our wounds are quite often the very keys that open the path towards true happiness. It is there when we learn what sincerity is, and what true sacrifice means.
Jesus comes right when we feel we do not deserve His gifts. He carries us in His arms and saves us. In our darkest hour, He provides the light and grants us the happiness we have long been searching for.
“Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews that were come with her, weeping, groaned in the spirit, and troubled himself, And said: Where have you laid him? They say to him: Lord, come and see. And Jesus wept.” — John 11:33–35, DRA
“Within thy wounds hide me.” — Anima Christi
Three Types of Wounds
1. Wounds from the world
Being hurt and disappointed from earthly things has taught me that the world could never really satisfy my soul. It could never provide for me the happiness I desire. God sometimes allows us to be hurt so we can at last let go of the things that will only continue to disappoint us, so we could look for Him.
“Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?” — Saint Gerard Majellae
2. Wounds from the self
“Without God, we can spread only pain and suffering around us.” — Mother Teresa
It is not only the world that disappoint us. We also disappoint ourselves. And we become the source of pain of other people, especially those closest to us.
Only God can rescue us from ourselves. Only God can change us so that we can finally stop hurting those we love the most. This includes not only people, but Jesus Himself whom we hurt with each sin, each fall.
“See what I was in myself and by myself. I had destroyed myself, but He who made me remade me.” — St. Augustine
3. Wounds from religion
Our expectations are often shattered not only by the world, but especially from those whom we see as those who should represent God. This includes the Church and the imperfect people within it.
Seeing these fall can cause us to leave even our belief in God. But this can also lead us into a deeper faith. For are we here to please men or to please God?
No one is perfect. We are all yet to be purified so we can see God. One day God will complete the good work He began in us, but until then, we are urged to walk in patience with each other and not expect from others what we can only expect from God.
“For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.” — Galatians 1:10, WEB
“People do not accept Christ because of love for the Church but they accept the Church because of love for Christ, even a Church disfigured by the sin of its many representatives…” — Pope Francis
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