By His Wounds - A Free Course

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Day 3 - Part 2

The truth of this Scripture is that cutting and all self-harm is "spending our labor on what does not satisfy." And the solution is in the passage, also, we are to listen to God, hear Him, and in so doing we will "eat what is good" and we will "delight in the richest of fare." We are to "come to Him" that we can truly live. See God has what we need. What we were previously seeking in self-harm is available in God and through His Word as we "listen to" what He is saying to us. That is why this course is built on the Scriptures so that we can "hear Him" and begin to delight in the good news He brings to us in His Word.

Now let us examine several passages of Scripture to see how they relate to our problem, and how they show us the way out.

Aha! Here we see where we can find true "fullness" and satisfaction: it is in Christ! And, note that Christians have been given the same fullness that Christ has in God, His Father. Wow. Jesus Christ is fully God; there is no part of God that does not dwell in Christ. All the fullness of God lives in Jesus. And Christians have been given this fullness in Christ.

Now, it should be obvious that we must be "in Christ" in order to receive this fullness. An unbeliever is empty, and will always seek to fill the emptiness with something. Even if a person stopped self-harming and began to lead a stable life, he or she would still seek fullness in something. But Christians have fullness in Christ. And if we, as Christians, have sinful ...

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