Time is not a person. Time is not a force or power. Time is not a function or remedy. Time is simply the measurement of earth’s rotation on its axis and around the sun. Time is the dividing of space into increments in order to keep track of days, nights, months, weeks, and years. It is nothing more.

Time is unable to heal either physical or emotional wounds. Time doesn’t heal a cut on our hand. Rather, our bodies repair cells, maybe helped along by medication, and over time we observe healing taking place.

Time does not heal emotional wounds. Time only removes an individual further from the instance or the person who caused the hurt. Herein lies the deception. The further we are removed from the heartache, the less we deal with it. The less we are faced with it. The less the blunt force of it blows us down. We have to live. We have to keep moving, keep working, keep cleaning house, keep caring for the kids. Life stays busy. Responsibilities do not cease to exist. Eventually, years later, we conclude, “I think I’ve actually come to terms with what happened years ago. I seem able to handle it much better. It just took some time.”

We are deceived. Time hasn’t applied any soothing balm at all. It has only covered and hidden our hurts through days, weeks, months, and years of life. Then suddenly out of nowhere we have a dream, we see someone, we hear a remark, we catch a certain smell, and boom! The wound is laid open before us again, and we are crushed. It was never really gone. it was just hidden by time. Memories do not reopen old wounds, they simply reveal that old wounds have never healed!

Time is not the answer. Business is not the answer. “Getting on with life” is not the answer. “Pick yourself up and get it together” is not the answer. God’s forgiveness, peace, restoration, reconciliation, and healing in Christ IS the answer!

Psalm 30:2 “O Lord my God, I cried to You for help, and You have healed me.”

Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to Me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.”

1 Peter 5:7 “casting all your anxieties on Him, because he cares for you.”

Christ is not only the Healer of our deepest wound, separation from God the Father, He is also the Gentle Healer of all our wounds. In Christ, God is our loving Father. Our heartaches are not meant to speed us on our way through life but rather to direct us to the most profound, fulfilling, and satisfying love we will ever know; the love of God!

Time cannot heal. Only God can.