Okay, this one might be a little gross — but it’s real.
My foot has started shedding so much dead skin that when I take my sock or pants off, it looks like a little dandruff storm. I can’t even sugarcoat it — it’s nasty.
But as I was looking at all that dry, flaky skin, I couldn’t help but think… this is what healing really looks like.
See, my body is literally getting rid of what it no longer needs.
That dead layer served its purpose — it protected the wound, it covered what was tender. But now, it has to go so that new, healthy skin can grow.
And it made me stop and think: how often does God do the same thing with us?
Sometimes He starts peeling away the things we’ve held onto — old ways of thinking, old hurts, old identities — and it feels uncomfortable, maybe even embarrassing.
It’s not pretty. It’s not the “highlight reel” kind of healing.
It’s the messy middle where everything looks worse before it gets better.
But that’s the part where God is quietly doing His best work.
Ezekiel 36:26 says:
“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”
And that’s exactly what this shedding feels like — a reminder that the old is being stripped away so something new, living, and soft can take its place.
Even though it’s gross, I’m learning to see beauty in it.
This peeling skin tells me my body is responding, renewing, doing exactly what God designed it to do — make things new.
So maybe in life, when we start to see the “flakes” of our old selves coming off — when we feel God scraping away what’s dead — we shouldn’t rush to cover it up.
We should thank Him for the new thing He’s growing underneath.
It’s wild how even the dirtiest, nastiest parts of healing can preach a sermon if you stop long enough to notice.
Isaiah 43:19
“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”
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