Stop Picking at the Scab

Have you ever picked at a scab? We all know we're not supposed to do it, but something inside us can't resist checking to see if it's really healing underneath. We do the same thing with our emotional and spiritual wounds—God starts healing us, but we keep going back to poke at the pain, question whether it's really getting better, and reopen what He's carefully binding up. This pattern of interference says something important about our struggle to trust God when we can't see or control what's happening beneath the surface.

There's a reason doctors tell patients not to remove bandages too early. Healing happens in the covered, protected places we can't see. When we keep lifting the bandage to check on progress, we interrupt the very process we're anxious about. The same is true when God is healing our broken hearts—our constant need to examine, test, and verify whether we're actually getting better often damages the delicate work He's doing underneath.

Jesus told His disciples in Matthew 6:27 that worrying can't add a single hour to our lives. Our obsessive checking doesn't speed up healing—it slows it down. When we can't let God do His work without our interference, we reveal something deeper: we're more comfortable with control than we are with trust. The hardest part of being healed isn't the original wound—it's learning to leave the bandage alone and let the Great Physician do what only He can do.

God doesn't need our help to heal us—He needs our cooperation. That cooperation looks less like constant monitoring and more like simple trust, less like anxious checking and more like peaceful resting. When we finally learn to leave the bandages alone, we make room for the healing we've been desperately wanting all along.

Until next time,
May the Lord bless you and keep you;
May He make His face shine upon you;
And be gracious to you and give you peace.

God Bless!
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