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Originally Posted by Suannehill
My comment about God healing the wounds but leaving the scars originally touched me in a book by Watchman Nee. Forgive me that I did not record the title but only have the quote posted above my computer...
"When our outer man is smitten, dealt with, and humbled by all kinds of misfortune, the scars and wounds left behind will be the very places from which the Spirit flows out from within." WN
You see brother Paul, according to WN we do indeed have both wounds and scars.
My feeling is that God has healed my wounds (and there will be more) but the scars remain.
Sue
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Many thanks for the quotation. This is an excerpt from Brother Watchman Nee's "The Breaking of the Outerman and the Release of the Spirit."
Wounds and scars are realities and I do not deny them. The Lord Jesus crucifixion are wounds for all of us. However, after the death of the Lord Jesus there is the resurrection and we are encouraged to pass through the crucifixion but must not stay at the cross of calvary. We need to experience the resurrection life also. We must go beyond the cross, which is the resurrection life which is the very goal of God for the Lord Jesus to become a life-giving Spirit that many sons will be produced to become God's corporate Body, the Body of Christ, which is the church.
In God's eyes, the church is holy, blameless and without wrinkles. I would venture to say also that the church must not have any scars. If this is correct, the church is composed of all the saints who were washed by the precious blood of Jesus in redemption and have been regenerated. We are all regenerated, and the Word says, the old has gone and the new has come. We were regenerated or born again and has obtained a new life, as well as partakers of the divine nature of God.
I believe Brother Watchman Nee was encouraging us to experience the cross because only the cross can break our outer man. Also, I believe that Brother Watchman Nee is admonishing us not to stay and focus with all the wounds and scars but to move forward, forgetting what was behind and pressing onward what the Lord Jesus has prepared for all of us. Perhaps, this is the very reason why Brother Watchman Nee stated in the same portion of the quotation referred by Sister Sue as follows:
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May our outer man be broken to such an extent that the inner man can be released and expressed.
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The keypoint in this excerpt is for the inner man to be released and expressed. This is God's goal for us to experience wounds and were evidenced by scars for our outer man be broken in order for the inner man to be released and expressed.
Grace be with you all. Amen.