Something that is broken is
not often thought to be useful in our society.
We discard things that are broken.
When people are broken and causing others pain, society seeks to do something
with them as well.
Yet it is a fact that we
have all dealt with pain and brokenness, some more than others. It is how we deal with our pain that speaks
volumes about who we are and what we believe.
Brokenness ought to lead us, as followers of Jesus, to be stronger and
more devoted to Him.
We also need to remember
that God is always listening and wanting to serve His children. His heart to turned toward His children,
listening to their prayers and helping often
Psalm
147:3 (NASB)
He heals the brokenhearted
And binds up
their wounds.
That is the nature of our
God. Yet often we have come to know and
see how Christians don’t care for one another.
That has to change. That is why our
church exists. Stop and check yourself
and what you are part of. Are you
helping to heal the broken or causing more pain?
John 8 tells the story of a
woman caught committing adultery, but it doesn’t describe in detail all of our
pain. It opens a situation where the
religious people and the person of grace, Jesus, come face to face. The world wants to step on us. God wants to lift us up. I believe we can find ourselves in this
story.
We find Jesus in one of his
common places at the begging of this chapter.
He has gone away, either alone or with the disciples, often to spend
time with the Father. The reason why Jesus
says what he does and does what He does is because of what the father has said
to Him.
There is no separation
between the Father and the son. That is
a critical point to understand and to get to the heart of all that Jesus had to
say. Jesus is literally turning the
church of this day and all the people around it upside down.
God loved the world so He
sent Jesus. You would agree? God heard the pain and plea of His people so
He gave a solution. He’s done that before. This is His character. God rescues and gives hope. That is His nature. That is what Jesus was sent to do.
Therefore, there is
brokenness. In Jesus’ day as in ours
there is brokenness all around. People
are in need of healing, of understanding, of strength and of something to believe. Would you agree that Jesus brings all those
things?
It is amazing to learn how
God created our bodies. At the point of
where a bone is broken and is healed, it is stronger than before. It is rare that it will ever break at the
same point again. God heals broken bones
and our brokenness in any situation.
Letting God deal with our
brokenness we will be stronger. We will
be able to deal with more and move further.
2 Corinthians 12:10 NASB
Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with
distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I
am weak, then I am strong.
Our experience with God will
take us to the next level if we let it.
Paul said he had been there. That
was his testimony. Maybe that is your
testimony as well. I’ve been broken,
I’ve been weak, but I have found God to be with me and to be so good.
Psalm
34:18 (NASB)
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted
And
saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Deuteronomy 20:4
NLT
For the LORD your God is
going with you! He will fight for you against your enemies, and he will give
you victory!
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