The Wound of the Unknown
When healing means uncovering what has lived beneath the surface too long.
Introduction
There are some wounds we can name and others that live quietly within us. These are the ones we have carried so long that they have become part of who we are. We smile through them. We love through them. We build around them. Over time, they blend into our being, and we begin to think this is just how life is meant to feel.
It is not that we do not know what they are. It is that we have learned to survive by covering them. We have swept them under the rug of strength and called it moving on. But God, in His perfect timing, brings these buried places to the surface not to hurt us, but to heal us.
Insights for Empowerment
True healing begins when we stop hiding what hurts. When we allow God to uncover what we have buried, we make room for Him to restore what we thought was beyond repair. The wounds we cannot name often hold the key to our deepest freedom.
Healing is not about pretending we are fine. It is about standing before God, honest and open, saying, “Lord, I bring You what I do not understand.” He already knows what we have carried. He is patient with our process. Psalm 147:3 reminds us that we do not have to figure out how to heal ourselves. We only have to bring it to Him and trust that even the pain we cannot name is known by the One who binds up wounds.
Conclusion
As I continue this walk of transparency, I am learning that healing is not a single moment but a continual unveiling. Each time I surrender another hidden piece, God meets me with tenderness. He does not expose to shame us. He reveals to heal us.
So today, I choose to stop living around my pain. I choose to face it with faith and invite God into the places I once ignored. Healing begins here, in honesty and surrender.
Encouraging Nuggets
What you hide cannot heal, but what you surrender can be transformed.
God does not rush your healing. He restores it piece by piece.
Even what you cannot name still matters to Him.
Healing is not the absence of pain but the presence of God in it.
Food for Thought: Scripture
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Psalm 147:3