Embracing our scars

We glorify God when we embrace our scars. Sharing our scars with others on how Jesus has brought these ashes into something beautiful will give others hope that they, too, can find beauty in their suffering and healing.

Jesus came into the world to suffer for us so that we could be redeemed. His scars give us redemption, they show us love, they give us beauty, and they give us eternal life.

Seeing our scars as a gift is proof to the world that God saves, he redeems and brings beauty from ashes. Jesus suffered on a cross to heal and redeem us from sin and death. When we carry our own crosses the trials we endure mold us to be more God-like. Not accepting our crosses, is not accepting Jesus. We can’t let him suffer for us and receive what he has to offer and do nothing in return. Attaching our suffering to His, allowing Him to share the yoke of our cross, allowing Him to speak healing into our wounds are what turns our crosses into glory and our scars into something beautiful!

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life?" Matthew16:24-26