July 10, 2025 - In a world such as ours, we are often appalled at man’s inhumanity to man and the brokenness of life we see around us every day. We see broken homes, broken health, broken hearts and broken hopes. The Psalmist writes in Psalms 147:3 “He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.”
Throughout the gospels, we see Jesus healing. He healed those who came to him blind and deaf. He healed the lame and he raised the dead. But we also see Jesus healing the brokenhearted. We see him healing those who were broken in spirit. There was an outcast woman at Jacob’s well, a tax collector named Zacchaeus and an unnamed woman caught in adultery, just to name a few. You see, Jesus had a special place for those society had cast away. He did not choose the apostles from the cream of society. They were not highly educated and they were looked down on by society. Yet, Jesus chose them. He remade them. He used them to change the world.
No matter how broken our lives might be by sin, no life is too broken to be mended and used by Jesus. If we are suffering from the brokenness of life, we must submit our stubborn will to his will, obey his commands and live his kind of life. Then he will heal our broken hearts and bind up our wounds.
It’s something to think about. . . tbp
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