I started with a shoulder-wrap cryo-cuff cooling system, surgical tape and glue over four holes and a three inch incision, a special sling and drugs.
A few weeks after the surgery all I was left for evidence was the sling...and this at times was actually to my detriment as people would squeeze my shoulder in a hug thinking my arm was hurt.
I am told I had a massive injury and received massive repair. It just doesn't look like it.
Our new life in Christ is much the same way; We had a massive tear. Not only our soft tissue, but our entire beings had been separated and injured.
We express the injury differently. Some experience massive pain and limited mobility after a shoulder injury. Others, like myself, seem to "recover" and show little symptoms of the damage beneath. I was actually surfing for four hours a few days before my surgery. I was deeply injured, but was highly functioning. Our separation from God is expressed differently as well. Some seem fine others not.
Regardless of the symptoms the damage the same. There are no "minor tears". All mankind experienced a massive injury and are in need of the same massive repair.
Recovery is different in everyone. I had a highly skilled sports doctor who works on professional athletes yet he still told me many, many times that he can preform the same surgery 1,000 times and cannot predict the outcome. We all heal at different rates when God ties us back to him. This is the process of sanctification.
Indeed man's recovery after he has reconnected bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh to himself differs as drastically. Some heal quickly, others slowly. Some experience pain, others none. Some are back to full health, others like Paul and Jacob still have a hitch in their giddy-up.
So I beg to look at those whom are in your body of Christian Fellowship as people in surgery, in the recovery room, in rehab and post rehab. Have grace with each other as we each heal at a different rate. I was told my repair was like a new tender shoot. It needed time to grow strong.
Encourage each other to do our exercises so that we may become what the Master Surgeon repaired us to be; unfettered worshipers expression our love in a thousand ways.
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