I think of the story of the ten lepers. “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” they cried in Luke 17. His answer? “Go show yourselves to the priests.”
It’s what happens next that amazes me. “And as they went, they were cleansed.” It’s tempting to hold back and stay stuck because we think we have to be completely healed before we go and show. We want our story to already have the happy ending, the bow to be tied around the package, the scars to be faded into invisibility. But I’ve found, as the lepers did, that the healing often happens along the way.
You don’t have to wait for your healing to be complete before you start moving forward. You don’t have to be whole before God sends you out. Of course we want healing to be a one-time, instantaneous event. We can even feel guilty if it’s not. But I’ve found healing is more often a process. Sometimes when we ask God to move He’s asking us the same.
Nothing has the power to hold you back.
You are already worthy.
And God is already at work.
XOXO
Holley Gerth
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