HOPE - Healing for the brokenhearted - Day 3

I like Jazz.  Especially when Harry Conick Jr. is singing Christmas Songs.  Jazz and Christmas songs go together like peanut butter and jam.  I can sit by the tree, just listening for several moments.  For me, that is a long time.  Ahhhh. 

But for others, Christmas isn't so cheery.  Christmas remind us of the brokenness in life.  We are reminded that we have loss.  Loss of a job, loss of a loved one, loss of stability, etc.  We wonder, "Does God even care?"

King David had a moment of depression.  He was running for his life from his son.  He was in a foreign country that he had attacked.  He was all alone.  I wonder if he thought to himself, "God, do you even care about me?"

Read about it in Ps 34 or click to view http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+34&version=NIV (Click back arrow on web browser to return)

Look at verse 18.  "The lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit."

He is close.  He is near.  He is up close and personal.  He knows exactly what is going on in your life.  He knows about all the broken pieces of your life.  He does care as the Apostle Paul tells us, "Cast all your care upon Him because he cares for you."  He isn't far away.  He isn't distant.  He is right there with you.  Weeping with you as you weep and rejoicing with you as you rejoice.

He is also going to restore your brokenness.  He is going to save the day.  We don't know how and we don't know when.  We just know that He is going to save those who are crushed in spirit.  He is working on putting the pieces back together again.  Even those little slivers that many will not be aware of, He is putting those back into place.

I hope you realize that better days do await you and that is why we can hope in Him.  Whatever the piece you are holding in your hand that reflects your brokenness, He cares deeply about it and is putting it back together.  Some day you will be mended and whole.  But until then our Hope is still in Him!

As you close:  Tell God about all the broken pieces of your life.  Weep with Him.  He will weep with you.

God Bless!