God and the broken hearted

Helpless children praise the King
Nothing brings Him greater fame
When broken people call His name

-- from the song Lift High by Fee Band

I meet broken people all the time. People who have been hurt by others, crushed by disease or poverty are in need of our great God. People who are in the midst of a great deal of pain are accepted and loved by God and, I pray, by each of us. Who do you know that is broken? Have you ever been broken?

The first time I heard it my heart melted because of the broken people I have met who are in need of Jesus and are allowing real hope to take hold of their lives. There are broken people around us, AND when we get honest about our own brokenness, other broken people will find healing. Honestly, the church and Christians, we have a tendency to look the other way, to forget where we have come from and to not help those in need because that can be messy.

We live in a day where broken people are everywhere. Drive down the backstreets of your town and strike up a conversation with someone you don't know at the store or the like. You will find broken, hurting people.

Those people for the most part have been turned away from and even sickened by organized religion. Depending on their age or even their geographic location, they may have experienced that Christians are more out spoken about what they are against than what they are for. Maybe they have found that churches are places of judgment rather than love and acceptance.

My heart is crushed by the needs of broken people. What am I going to do about it? Are you broken? I've been there. And I've learned that God is good. God wants to work in the lives of the broken through us!

Psalm 147:3 NLT

He heals the broken hearted and bandages their wounds.

God heals our brokenness.

Romans 15:7 NLT

Therefore, accept each other just as Christ has accepted you so that God will be given glory.

God accepts us where we are as we are.

Acts 13:38 NLT

Brothers, listen! We are here to proclaim that through this man Jesus there is forgiveness for your sins.

God gives forgiveness and second chances. We all need second chances. We all need to be accepted. We all need to be healed. But before we can help others get those things, we have to allow God to do those things in our lives because we are so very often broken. Are you broken?

Lets help those who are broken around us experience the God who has held us, helped us and healed us in our own brokenness.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 NASB

And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness " Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 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.

NOTE: much of this was first shared in February of 2010 and remains true today.

Have you heard of EDITH BURNS?

Edith Burns was a wonderful Christian who lived in San Antonio, Texas . She was the patient of a doctor by the name of Will Phillips. Dr. Phillips was a gentle doctor who saw patients as people. His favorite patient was Edith Burns. One morning he went to his office with a heavy heart and it was because of Edith Burns. When he walked into that waiting room, there sat Edith with her big black Bible in her lap earnestly talking to a young mother sitting beside her. Edith Burns had a habit of introducing herself in this way: "Hello, my name is Edith Burns. Do you believe in Easter?" Then she would explain the meaning of Easter, and many times people would be saved. Dr. Phillips walked into that office and there he saw the head nurse, Beverly. Beverly had first met Edith when she was taking her blood pressure. Edith began by saying,"My name is Edith Burns. Do you believe in Easter?" Beverly said, "Why yes I do." Edith said, "Well, what do you ...

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