And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. (Zechariah 13:6)
Jesus was wounded and betrayed.
To betray someone is to be not trustworthy or to be disloyal, to let an individual down, or to deceive them. It then is the opposite of loyal. To be loyal is to be faithful, devoted, honest, reliable, and constant. There is no shadiness about you. You are a true-blue person as they say. Betrayal involves dishonesty and trickery. Betrayal goes against loyalty, so just as intensely powerful as loyalty is … betrayal carries the same weight. It’s much like love and hate. Love is a deeply rooted emotion and so is hate. Love makes you do things out of admiration for a person, whereas envy and jealousy are at the root of hate.
How does it all start? Where it starts is where it all ends as well. Could it have been avoided? If not, who should have stopped it? What were the benefits of betrayal and what was the outcome that attached itself like cancer to the individuals eating away their future? Betrayal leaves some wounds that must be confronted with truth in order to start the healing process.
Healing the Hurting
Wounds are personal. Wounds technically cannot be shared because the personal pain will only be felt by the body bearing the wound. Someone next to you may experience the same incident or accident that causes a wound but only the individual will be able to articulate the intensity of the pain from the wound. Even the doctor will ask, “How bad is the pain?” You can explain it to him but he cannot feel it.
Wounds happen when someone or something potentially harmful gets close enough to you to make a cut into your flesh and sometimes your spirit. Most won't or don't acknowledge a wound to the spirit because they are taught words don't hurt. Do you remember that sticks and stones song or riddle? How they do break bones, but words will never hurt you? WRONG! Sometimes it’s the words that do the worst damage because words embedded deep in your spirit can follow you for your entire life and draft or mutilate your future.
As a child, we’re taught to just suck it up and keep going. Some wounds began there … in childhood. Then, we enter adulthood still thinking about what was said in childhood. Notice our growth has been stunted.
We go to the natural doctor to get a salve or get stitched up from an open cut or burn. How do we heal a wounded soul? Some wounds were intentional … some by accident. How do you heal? By praying for forgiveness. Jesus prayed it on the cross, "Father forgive them, for they do not know what they do." Some have no idea of the pain betrayal has caused you.
I know as a writer or what I experienced is not all that exclusive. It is meant to connect us as survivors of the hits we took that were intended to cause injury, hurt, damage, cuts, lesions, and offense. Jesus is our example and Love was His power.
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