People may try to comfort us with their kind words, but the sting is still there. Sometimes the wounds and scars in our hearts are so very tender that we wonder if they will ever heal. We all feel broken at times. We all bear the scars of past hurts and the wounds of disappointments.
Life is filled with trials and troubles. Sometimes things don't go the way that we think that they should go. We wonder if there is anyone that truly understands our brokenness and our sorrow. I am here to tell you that there indeed is someone that knows all about the sorrow and pain we feel.
The Lord Jesus Christ knows all about our troubles, our sorrows, and our brokenness. He knows every little detail of our lives. He knows what is bothering us. He sees our brokenness. The Lord invites us to come to Him to find rest for our weary souls. Jesus cares more than anyone we know.
Today at the First Baptist Church in Houlton, Maine we had Communion. I was reminded of the broken body of Jesus as He was nailed upon the Cross for my brokenness. I am a broken person. My heart breaks because of my sin and my heart breaks for those who are lonely, afraid, and don't know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. My heart breaks for those who are facing addiction to various things and need the chains of sin broken off of them.
I was also reminded during Communion of the shed blood of Jesus Christ that cleanses us of our sins. Jesus died on the Cross for my sins, your sins, and the sins of the whole world. The Lord Jesus rose from the dead on the third day and He is now at the right hand of the Father in Heaven. One Glorious Day Jesus Christ will return to this earth as the King if kings and the Lord of lords when He brings the Kingdom of God to full completion upon this earth.
The Lord didn't leave us as orphans to fend for ourselves until He returns, but He gives the Holy Spirit to indwell each of us who have placed our faith and trust in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior and His finished work on the Cross. God understands our brokenness very well because His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, was broken for our brokenness.
We may not always understand what God is up to in our lives or in the lives of those we love. We can still pray for them and we can continue to trust our Living Loving God to do what is best for His Glory and perfect will.
We will never see the full picture as we dwell on this earth, but we can rest in the assurance that the Lord knows the beginning to the very end and He sees the full complete picture. God is good and He is good all the time. We can trust Him with our broken hearts. We can trust Him with our grief and sorrow. We can trust Him with our today's and we can know that He will lead us through our tomorrows.
I like what Isaiah 53 says about the suffering servant who is Jesus Christ and all that He endured for us.
Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
4 Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.
11 After he has suffered, he will see the light of life and be satisfied ; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."
What a wonderful Savior that we have in the Lord Jesus Christ. He bore our sins upon Himself on the Cross. He took the punishment that you and I so rightly deserve. Jesus paid it all for us so that you and I can be reconciled back to God. Our sin separated us from having a relationship with the Lord Almighty God, but now because of the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ upon the Cross we can obtain forgiveness of our sins and come into a right standing with God. God made a way for us when there seemed to be no way possible. What an Awesome God!
When we feel broken let us remember all that Jesus suffered for us and the sacrifice that He made on our behalf. There will be times when we will have to give up something and that can be considered a sort of sacrifice. It made not be easy or comfortable, but sometimes serving the Lord in obedience to His will won't be easy or comfortable at all. In the end we need to trust Him because He is God and He knows what He is doing.
Lord, Heavenly Father,
We are a broken people.
Our hearts break over many things.
Heal our broken spirit.
Thank You Lord Jesus for becoming broken for us an our sins on the Cross.
We praise Your Holy Name.
Lead us and guide us by Your Holy Spirit.
In Jesus Name we pray,
Amen.
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