Jesus Healed Job’s Pain
God is showing me at the moment, through the book of Job, a journey we have to take, and a process we must go through to receive healing from pain. When all the terrible things had happened to Job and he had lost everything that was precious to him, when he had suffered such incredible pain in his life, his friends ’saw Job from a distance, and scarcely recognised him’. As I read this the Holy Spirit told me that when we go through a lot of trauma and painful experiences in life, we can become so scarred that, spiritually, we are unrecognisable from the way God created us to be. We are marred and distorted, and we lose the beauty that God put within us. However, Isaiah 52:14 paints a picture of Jesus exactly the same way that Job’s friends saw him when he was broken. ‘But many were amazed when they saw Him. His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human, and from His appearance one would scarcely know He was a man.’ I have only ever read this scripture before as a description of Jesus’ physical appearance after he was whipped and beaten and was dying on the cross. But actually, this is also a vivid description of how Jesus looked on the inside. His spirit was torn, distorted, and marred beyond recognition as He took upon, and within Himself, all of our pain and brokenness. It is incredible to realise that not only did Jesus save me, and heal my body and emotions; He also bore the disfigurement of my spirit. I can actually be fully restored even to the depth of my spirit. The Lord ’rescues those whose spirits are crushed.’ (Ps 34:18)