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