God Can Heal A Broken
Heart, But He Has To Have All Of The Pieces
Hebrews 4:13-16 (Amplified Bible)
13) And not a creature exists that is concealed from His sight,
but all things are open and exposed, naked and defenseless to the eyes of Him
with Whom we have to do. 14) Inasmuch then as we
have a great High Priest Who has [already] ascended and passed through the
heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession [of faith in
Him]. 15) For we do not have a High Priest Who is
unable to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our
weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of temptation, but One
Who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning. 16) Let
us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace
(the throne of God's unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy
[for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need
[appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it].
I have a friend that seems to be in a
very different place in her life. It is hard for others to understand and
as I listened to her, I believe it is difficult for her as well. As God
transitions her life into a new places and into new relationships, things
that were familiar and the way business was done as usual does not exist
anymore. In a strange way there is a brokenness because of the lack of
acceptance by others, it is a brokenness that I recognized and related to well.
I knew that pain of feeling like the outcast and the odd man out, the square
peg trying to fit into that round hole. Even now the awkwardness that
often comes with being who God created me to be keeps me broken before Him,
reliant upon Him.
Before I knew God the way I do now I use to
try to mold myself to what people wanted me to be, much to my demise and much
to my destruction. I use to try to put on a hard exterior, and swallow
the pain that came with being different. I found myself even trying to hide my
brokenness within the confines of ministry and the church, even within my
worship towards the one who knows me best, God himself. I would find myself
fighting not to cry and offer up all of my pain and every thing that was broken
and that needed healing within me. But the one thing I did not consider
is God knows everything and sees all things inside of me and outside of me any
way and that my pain and my need for healing was not hid from Him, but I also
needed to realize that God would not mend my brokenness if I would not give it
to Him. The choice was mine, not His. For so many of us, we are screaming
on the inside for relief from the pain but we have not given it to God yet, we
have not said Lord this is yours to fix, not mine to bare. We are hiding
the pieces of our broken lives, relationships, ministries, jobs, families,
etc. God is waiting to fix it put we are only handing him a few pieces of
the whole instead of the wholes shattered mess.
God is a good God and He love us so much.
He wants to see us whole healed and delivered, but there is something we
must do, we have to give Him all of the piece of our brokenness. It does
not matter whether shattered into fragments or broken into large pieces God can
heal, He can deliver, He can mend our brokenness, He can fix everything in need
of fixing and right every wrong. Only if we will let Him!
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