Compound Fracture
Psalm 34:17-19 Amplified Bible (AMP)
17When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their distress and troubles. 18The Lord is close to those who are of a broken heart and saves such as are crushed with sorrow for sin and are humbly and thoroughly penitent. 19Many evils confront the [consistently] righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
Yesterday morning as I was writing and I heard the words “compound fracture” well up in my spirit… I had heard these words before because each one of my children has had a compound fracture, but I did not get what God wanted to say in those moments, but I felt the need to write down this phrase in my book, so I did. As the day progressed yesterday, I felt the Holy Spirit speak to me and tell me to look up the true definition of a compound fracture. At that moment I was not in a place to do it so I wrote myself a reminder and pressed on with the day. Last night I was sharing with two beautiful young ladies in my life that are like my sisters…I care and love them deeply. We were just talking in general terms and then God allowed the conversation to go into a place where I was sharing personal areas of my life, things in my life that even though I would like to think are personal, have elements and issues that have been exposed to the public; parts that they were aware of but they never knew the true depth of the brokenness. These issues have been things that people have been able to watch play out in my life, and watched me go through them, and have observed my actions and reaction.. I was sharing areas of my life where I was broken, and torn that were private things that played out in public sectors, but the depth of the brokenness may have never been known. This morning before I could begin to write I looked up the definition of a compound fracture and this is what it said: “An open fracture, also called a compound fracture, is an injury that occurs when there is a break in the skin around a broken bone. In order for an injury to be classified as a compound fracture, the outside air (and dirt and bacteria) must be able to get to the fracture site without a barrier of skin or soft-tissue. Therefore, a bone does not need to be through the skin in order for the injury to be called a compound fracture.” Wow How amazing is God!
There are so many of us, that have fractures, and they are what we think are supposed to be closed or private areas of brokenness. We wish that we could just close out everyone from knowing about this personal and deep brokenness. We think that it is no one’s business. But the truths of the matter is no matter how much we try to hide it, down play it and not give it any power, it is powerful because it is being played out in such a way that we have little control over who knows and who doesn’t. It is in these times that our brokenness and pains are exposed not just to individuals that have what we feel is “no right to know,” but we are being subject to people evaluating us and us being exposed to additional hurt and pain because of the judgment of individuals that are watching that can really only see that we are broken but have no idea of all that is taking place on the inside. We are those who are suffering from “compound fractures”… Individuals that God is making a witness for others, although it may seem that everyone knows about your divorce and that our spouse was unfaithful, abusive, etc.…they are looking at us judging what they see and how they see us reacting. People are standing there watching as we go through loss, times when it appears that we have lost everything, and they evaluating our behavior as it is happening. We are broken, and exposed to the elements, exposed in a way that can open us up to addition pain and infection that will only make our journey of recovery that much more difficult if an outside element attacks us or infiltrates that already vulnerable space.
The funny thing about compound fractures are that if they are not taken care of in a specific way at the time of the injury they can require more intense and radical treatment such as surgery. As I sat here, God said that although your fracture was compound you treated it in a way that did not cause it further infection or exposure to make it worse, you did not open yourself up to infection, because in all of your pain you came to me, and you did as I asked. Even in your pain you were doing what was right by those who had been the ones to break you. You see although our pain maybe in a place of exposure if we place God out in front of us He is the ice that reduces the incident from swelling, He is protection that keeps us from becoming infected with addition pain and outside influence that could harm us or cause us additional problems. God is the one that even when we feel like we are laid to waste and all of our business is in the street, can heal us and make us better than we were before. He will make us a testimony and close the very mouth of the enemy, and those that were seeking to pick at our wounds. It is when we live under the shadow of the Almighty that will bind up our brokenness and make what all have seen as ugly, shattered and deformed, into something beautiful, useful, and our point of strength. So do not despise your pain and the place that you may find yourself with your brokenness open and exposed to the air of public opinion God is setting you up. Rest in Him and trust Him to be your Jehovah Rophi, God your healer and your Jehovah Nissi, the banner and presence that abides over you and your situation!
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