He
heals the brokenhearted
and binds up their wounds.
Two brother
often could be found outside ‘stick fighting’; they would each grab a stick and
pretend to sword fight! They had a lot of fun. Then one day the 5 year old was
backed up on top of a picnic table. He was warned not to back up any further or
he would fall, but he made the choice not to listen. As a result, he backed up
off the edge and had fallen on the concrete! One ER visit later, he was in a
lot of pain with a lump the size of a goose-egg on the back of his head. OUCH!
If only he had listened to his brother, that wouldn’t have happened.
God
made clear to us His perfect and holy ways. Even in the very beginning, Adam
and Eve were told not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge; and they ignored his
commands. The whole world over, we’re all broken and sinful. Scripture says in Romans
3:23, ‘For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God’. That means no
one is good enough: we’re ALL broken. Just like I didn’t listen to my brother’s
warning, God tells us not to sin and we so often don’t want to listen to him.
Praise
Jesus that he came to save us from our brokenness! God does see us as broken,
and that’s certainly a label we deserve. But the Good News is that just because
we’re broken, doesn’t mean He stops loving us. Psalms 147:3 says ‘He heals the
brokenhearted and binds up their wounds’.
Dear Lord, we are broken, but thank You for giving us hope
for salvation! Thank you for Your unfailing love. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.
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