Psalm 38

Sin hurts, and sometimes, God must injure us as well to heal us of our sin. It sounds harsh to say that God wounds us when we're down, but really, it's just good medicine.

A surgeon must injure us to do open heart surgery. There is pain and there is a need t0 heal after the surgery, but without that surgeon's blade piercing the skin, our heart would eventually do much greater harm. It would kill us.

So, yes, God injures us. He makes a bad day worse. But He does so so that that bad day that got worse is not your last day. God hurts us so that tomorrow may be better, filled with hope and expectation, not dismay and failure.

God heals, and sometimes that hurts.