Sometimes, the ripping off of the plaster is almost more painful than the wound it hid, but unless we let air get to it, it will never fully heal. A scar may be left as a reminder of the injury, but it will eventually heal… Why? Because God designed bodies to heal! Our bodies are fearfully and wonderfully made.
The body of Christ is no less. There are organic changes over time – it’s a living thing. But it will be functional, and it will be beautiful. The body of Christ is not just one denomination, one congregation… it is the millions of born-again, true believers worldwide, in communion through the blood of Christ.
In some parts of the world, persecution brings great injury to the body. How can it possibly be restored? Through prayer, through love, through forgiveness, through unity, through knowing we are all in one, and Jesus is the One in all. We are united in Christ, as HIS body, whether we be near to each other, half way around the world, or across eternity…
Romans 8:31-39 NKJV
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The Finished Work 