Healing Broken Hearts
Theme of the week: When Life Knocks You Down
Monday, May 21, 2012
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Key Bible Verse: He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. (Psalm 147:3, NIV) Dig Deeper: Psalm 34:15-19
What's so hopeful about [today's Key Bible Verse] is that God's involvement with us isn't so "spiritual" and heavenly that it has no earthly good. God is very present with us in our broken-heartedness, disillusionments, despair, and wounded spirits. These painful experiences—those that go deep into our hearts and psyches and daily eat away at the center of our being—are what occupy too many of our days.
God wants to heal our deep hurts and bind up our hidden wounds because he cares about such things and intends to do something about them. If sometimes God doesn't heal our wounds the very moment we ask him, it's not because he isn't concerned; it's because he intends to grow us through them. That might even be the reason they were allowed to come our way in the first place. If God is really in charge of everything all the time, then he's in charge of this as well. And don't forget, there will come a day when such things are no longer even a memory:
"He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away" (Rev. 21:4, NIV).
—John Snyder in Your 100 Day Prayer
My Response: A time I know God used a painful experience to help me grow spiritually was …
Adapted from Your 100 Day Prayer (Thomas Nelson, 2011) by permission. All rights reserved by the copyright holder and/or the publisher. May not be reproduced.
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Dear Father, may I always remember that you offer healing for the brokenhearted, hope for the hopeless, and a heavenly future that will one day free your followers from pain and sorrow.
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