In the
world today, it is hard not to allow things to tear at you. Every day you see more and more things that
make you wonder if this world has completely been lost. There are people out there doing all sorts of
dreadful and cruel things to the disabled and children. Every day people are murdered for no
reason. Protests are happening on behalf
of criminals because they are “good” people.
And the list goes on for pages and pages of all the things that tear at
us. We are living in a broken world and
developing broken people.
Every
now and then you have to stop and look around you to see that the people in
your life are just as broken as the world.
The stress of family members battling diseases that can’t be won or
families torn apart by the effects of addiction can be hidden deep within
people. The questions of how all the
bills will get paid this month and how will they have enough left over to feed
everyone still linger every night when they go to bed. These people are broken, but you would never
know it because they get up and hide behind a smile every day. Brokenness is a worldly problem that has very
personal connections with everyone in it.
With
all the brokenness that is out there today, it is hard to fall back on the
words David wrote in Psalm. He talked
about giving hope to people that are broken.
Psalm 34:17-18 says, “The Lord hears his people when they call to him
for help. He rescues them from all their
troubles. 18 The Lord is close to the
brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed.” But with
so much pressure being put on people, it is hard to follow David’s teachings and
know that God is there waiting on us. We
feel like we can survive on our own without asking for help.
No one
is immune from having their spirit broken at times either. The pressures of the world become greater
than we can deal with and we are ready to give up. We see the light at the end of the tunnel but
we know that it is a train coming straight for us. The world is about to run us over and we have
nowhere to run. We are right in the path
of the destruction that is looming. And in
the aftermath of being run over by the world or our personal hell, we also have
to look back to David for another verse of encouragement. Psalm 147:3 says, “He heals the brokenhearted
and bandages their wounds.”
In the
world we live in today, I hope David is right. There are people that have been beat down and
chewed up with fear, stress and every other emotion that can weigh on you that
need God to heal them from within. They need
their brokenness bandaged up so they can get up with a genuine smile on their
face and tell people how God brought them trough the trials of life. The world will always be broken and people
will always be pushed to their breaking point, but when they stop to catch
their breath they will hear God telling them, “Be still, and know that I am
God!...”(Psalm 46:10) .
It is
time for everyone to stop and listen to God and not the world. The world is a broken place and causes us to
become broken people, but God is the healer of all things broken when we allow
Him to take control. BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD! This is something that will calm the stress
that comes from being BROKEN.
Lord, I
pray for the broken. Amen.
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