Galatians 4:4
"But when the fullness of the time was come..."
In the dimension of time, natural men are ruled by it. We celebrate the passing of time even as we inch closer to our end.
We say that time heals all wounds but it's not time that heals the wounds of our sinful flesh, it's Jesus Who came into time for us; "But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son..."
We can only be truly healed by the wounds of our Substitute; our LORD Jesus Christ, "For thus saith the LORD, thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous." (Jeremiah 30:12) "But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities...and with His stripes we are healed." (Isaiah 53:5)
It's all Christ: His perfectly obedient life and His perfectly obedient suffering and His perfectly obedient death that healed His children from our sins, for ever more.
Ordained in eternity, where there is no time, yet carried out in time and the "fullness" thereof; He is our Healing, "That in the dispensation of the fullness of times He might gather together in One all things in Christ, both which are in Heaven, and which are on earth; even in Him..." (Ephesians 1:10)
We celebrate the One Who heals; the Greatest Physician. We'll have no scars in our new flesh from our sin that He saved us from, only the scars of our Savior will remain to His glory and we'll rejoice in Him forever more!
"Behold, I make all things new..." (Revelation 21:5)
...in Christ alone!
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