PRESERVATION OF OUR LORD'S TESTIMONY AMONGST US: Healing of Damaged Hearts

Enjoy this last devotional from last week's theme: PRESERVATION OF OUR LORD'S TESTIMONY AMONGST US: Healing of Damaged Hearts!

We must always hold on to the promises of God, and know that He deeply, and completely now and then, reaches to touch and to heal us, knowing that none will, in their journeying, escape being broken or beset by wounds. Human history, beyond our origins, must need scars. No matter the age, pray we age wisely together beyond circumstances and with the beautifying and encouraging work of the Spirit to have us 'remember' until we are called away. 'He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.'

A foretaste of the Lord's faithfulness was shown as He approached, and healed the bodily and spiritually unwell, even the dead, and set within them a new appetite and an eternal hope. The climax of it, in part, was at Calvary settling with, 'It is finished', to be further stirred by His witnessed resurrection. Indeed, He is risen!

Remember, "...And by His stripes we are healed..." Isaiah 53:5 God, who is transcendent and yet intimate is befitting of the title Emanuel, God with us. For however literal we chase the truth of the Bible, it is clear that to bind one's wounds, there is the implication that one must have empathy enough to come near, and to touch. One's empathy must be particular enough to take on the messy and heal. God's fluidity to be high and lifted up, and to be near to all, and to indwell, is a part of the mystery and the majesty of Him. There's nobody like Him!

In Him, and of Him there is such radical Love, as to perfectly know the sinner, respond to their need, while still being perfectly 'holy', and being present. There's nobody like Him! For the thirsty soil and the wanting crop of a dry land, we have the timely gift of water, allegorically put, so that we might appreciate also, for the thirsty soil and the wanton ways of needy humanity, we have the timely gift of living waters.

Consider our brother Isaiah further: "For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth, and making it bear and sprout, and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so shall My word be which goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it." Isaiah 55:10,11. In this it seems clear, whether inscribed, the written Word, or embodied, the Living Word, we have the heavenly condescending, to do a work, to effect the earthly, and to return fruitful. In that precious season of doing, the receptive, once brokenhearted and wounded, are healed. In that fruitfulness of His, and in His returning, the healed are helped home. Amen.

He heals the brokenhearted, Yes! And binds the wounds from want and need;
The will turned right to gain the blessing, found of God's own glorious seed.
He heals the brokenhearted, Yes! And settles every tear and groan,
To raise the sinner, now made saint, His own to crown and near the throne!
His own discovering 'home'. Amen! His own discovering 'home'.

Prayer: Thank You Lord for unmerited favor, and for the grace which affords our nearing You and Yours lovingly. Being forgiven, may our gratitude be ever bright, and ever bold. As the pages of our stories are touched and turned, may we each, in our own way, revel in the personal healing come of Your mercy, knowing it as real.
Bless You Jesus, and Amen!
By Bro. McNeal Brockington