As I was driving today, the Lord began to give me a new song. Later in the day it came back to me and I’ve been pondering it ever since.

 

Lyrics: (just a snippet)

With every step

God is healing me.

Like the lepers who

Walked in pure belief.

 

And even when I feel so lost that I can’t even see,

With every step He’s healing me.

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In our healing process we often don’t realize every step of obedience is giving us a measure of healing.

 

God knows what’s best for us so as He begins to pull us out of one place to head into another He knows that if we will have the courage to take the step and trust Him, an unseen healing is happening.

 

I was thinking on this and a few things came to mind.

 

Every time I’ve stepped in faith, even when I was afraid, something that was undone in me was somehow being fixed.

 

For example, I had to relearn how to trust people with a wisdom that was good. So when He asks me to step into something new with new faces, I know He is also rebuilding my ability to trust. Not just Him but others also.

 

With every step He kept showing me He would catch my every fall, never leave me in my crisis, and always be there to counsel me.

 

Every step I learned it was true that He was not a man that He should lie, even though people do.

 

With every trembling step, fear would fade more and more because I realized He really was true to His Word and promises.

 

Maybe if I never took the steps, whatever was undone in me would still be undone.

 

I couldn’t know the immeasurably more life with Christ without considerable risk-taking. But every step I learned how to hear Him more and more.

 

With every step I could see His footprints, at times, going ahead of me. And soon the puzzle pieces would fall into place while the anxiety of every step would go and peace would come.

 

Every step has taught me how to be more strong and courageous. Not because I naturally am but because I saw that with every step I was never alone.

 

He wants me, and you, in proper position more than we even want it and He knows best how to get us there.

 

That thought keeps me calm on the rollercoasters and my stomach stays a little more settled on every unforeseen merry-go-round.

 

With every step I’m learning I like to control things less and less. He is such a better driver. I needed to be healed of perfectionism because it stemmed from insecurities. So, controlling things was a real “thing.”

 

With every step, my heart has healed more and more as I’ve seen the purpose of past pains now watering a beautiful vineyard full of fruit.

 

Every step purposed by a King, just for me.

 

The same is true for you.

With every step, He is healing you, somehow.

 

Teaching you how He cares for you.

Showing you what true love is really like.

 

He is carefully handling the undone places in a way that will last.

 

Some steps take us away from familiar places and faces because that’s what’s needed for us to heal fully and to become all that He designed us to be.

 

Other steps are purposed so that pain no longer keeps our hearts closed off to Him, and to others.

 

Whatever the step may be, you can trust Him.

 

So, I might just leave you with this nudge of encouragement from a fellow sojourner:

 

Don’t be afraid to take the next step.

And remember, with every step He is healing you, perhaps, in a way you never knew you needed…

 

Luke 17:12-14  As He entered a village, He was met by ten lepers who stood at a distance; and they raised their voices and called out, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” When He saw them, He said to them,  Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were [miraculously] healed and made clean.