"He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds."
Psalm 147:3
I looked at the driveway and noticed the fault line, a broken place across the width of the concrete. It's to be expected. Time and pressure takes its toll on the concrete pad. So it is in life. Time and pressures of life take their toll on our hearts. Of course, we can hide the broken heart, unlike the driveway, with a smile. Nevertheless, our wounds are still there. God knows. Who can get through this life without a broken heart at some place? Maybe no one, and many experience the broken heart again and again.
God is in the business of healing the brokenhearted. We may not really see our desperate need for him until our hearts are broken. Like the child who cries for his mother, when he has been injured, he needs to be held in her love. She can make it better, because he knows that she cares. May you never be brokenhearted, but if you are, please know that God cares. Open your heart to him to heal the broken places of your life.
The psalmist knew two things that open our lives to God healing the brokenhearted. First, through it all, let us praise God in song. Praise the LORD! All of the Psalms are written to be sung. In the darkest night of the soul, there has to be a song to get you through it all. Let it be the LORD'S song. Secondly, we must humble ourselves before the LORD. Oh, how much easier it is to do so, when our hearts are broken. "The LORD lifts up the humble," Psalm 147:6. Like a mother's arms lifting up the crying child, the LORD lifts up his children.
Father, heal our broken hearts and bind up our wounds through Jesus Christ. Amen.
