Be Healed

DEVOTION

HEBREWS

BE HEALED

Heb 12:12-13

12 Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. 13 "Make level paths for your feet," so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.

NIV

Sometimes after enduring hardship for an extended time, whether that is from our own fault or as in the form of discipline from God, we can become exhausted, worn out, discouraged and even to the point of giving up. We may think when is it going to end, I cannot take anymore, but here we are encouraged to buck up, strengthen our feeble arms and weak knees, as their say, take it like a man. If the hardship we are enduring is due to the discipline of the Lord than there is a purpose, a plan, a divine plan for the betterment of our life as so we need to see that in order we do not become lame, but rather we are healed. Now if our hardship is due to our own fault, as from a bad decision, a bad choice or some other reason that is due to our action or inaction than we still need to make level paths for our feet, correct the mistake so we will not be lame or crippled in our life, but rather we will be healed. If we refuse the correction from God through the form of discipline that may in fact bring some form of hardship into our life, then we will be lame, we will be crippled both in the physical and in the spiritual. But is we see the purpose of the correction, that is we acknowledge our sin, our disobedience and understand His corrective action in our life, we will make straight, make level our path and walk tall, learning from the experience thus being healed from the dreadful disease we were so inflicted with. For some it may be far easier to fall under the hardship, than to strengthen ourselves in the midst of it, but the right course of action is to renew our faith in God, see what He is doing and make the level path, make the needed change and be healed, be whole, be at peak performance as one of His children, one of His Christian soldiers. As the song writer wrote, “Onward Christian soldier”  we need to move on, accept the training, and “Be the best we can be”.   Be Healed.