You have carried the weight of your secret for way too long
Thinking if there is a place called forgiveness you don’t belong
Oh, but freedom can never be found behind those walls
So just let ’em fall, just let ’em fall
Oh, the healing has begun
Oh, the healing has begun
How long has it been since you felt anything but shame
Child, lift up your eyes ’cause mercy remembers your name
And those tears you’ve been holding back, let ’em fall down like rain
‘Cause today is the day, yeah today is the day
Oh, the healing has begun
Oh, the healing has begun
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Just lift your eyes
Lay it down
What once was lost
Has now been found, oh
There’s a world full of people dying from broken hearts
Holding on to the guilt, thinking they fell too far
So don’t be afraid to show ’em your beautiful scars
‘Cause they’re the proof, yeah you’re the proof
Oh, the healing has begun
Songwriter/Singer – Matthew West along with Joseph Houser
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I heard this song for the first time Saturday night at church during communion. It touched me on so many levels, and in so many ways, I would have to write a book to explain it all.
Matthew West has said this is a song about healing and forgiveness…about embracing the gift of grace. This song reminds me how grateful I am that “…mercy remembers [my] name.” The Psalms tell us:
The Lord is close to those who are of a broken heart and saves such as are crushed with sorrow for sin and are humbly and thoroughly penitent.
Psalm 34:18 AMP
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds [curing their pains and their sorrows].
Psalm 147:3 AMP
We all have broken, shattered pieces of our lives. Things we regret doing, things that make us feel guilty and ashamed. Jesus came to heal us of spiritual ailments as well as physical ones. I love this part “So don’t be afraid to show ’em your beautiful scars, ‘cause they’re the proof, yeah, you’re the proof….”
I have often asked God not to let my pain be in vain. Isaiah 61:1b (AMP) tells me: “He has sent me to bind up and heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the [physical and spiritual] captives and the opening of the prison and of the eyes to those who are bound….” Sometimes it hurts to reveal those scars. Sometimes it is scary to open yourself up to others. But just imagine what it would be like if doing so helped someone else begin to heal!
The part that really touched me this weekend is the “Oh, the healing has begun.” I have sung that refrain over and over and over again in my head. There is a person…a situation…that I have been praying for and about for years. This song is something they really need to hear and believe. God showed me He is using my pain and my scars to begin their healing. And those words were confirmation that God has indeed begun the healing in them.
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Thank You, Father, that Your healing in us has begun. Let our pains, our scars be a light of hope to others. In Jesus’ name I ask this, Amen – It Is So!
