HEALING

HEALING / 1/19/14

What does it feel like to be broken in spirit from the wounds of someone, to then turn around and be so broken in the presence of the Lord in such a deep way, that you heal? 

The saying goes, “You can’t fix what’s not broken.”  TRUE.   You would never take a brand new anything that works perfectly back to the store and say “fix this,” if nothing was wrong with it. Same reason we can’t go to God and tell him we need a Savior, if we are perfect. 

So to be BROKEN before God, when inside you already feel like someone else broke you, can be a deep and painful surgery.  Imagine a beautiful ceramic pot, glazed and painted for display, and someone comes in and whacks it with a bat into a million different sized pieces.  Would you go get a glue gun?  Or a trash can?  This is my visual every time I think about being truly BROKEN before God.  I visualize, being broken into so many pieces, that I can’t even attempt to glue my life back together.  I think to myself, the only thing I have as a solution is a trash can.

To go before God BROKEN, means to humble yourself and lay every broken piece before Him, holding NOTHING back.  It says to God, “I’ve got nothing worthy to offer you, I am nothing, You, LORD are everything, and I need ALL of you, to hold my BROKENESS together.  I am BROKEN without you.”  Sure, we can all mumble a prayer that seems humble, and we can say all the right words out loud among peers, but God KNOWS and SEES His BROKEN children, and when he does, he calls you by name to come to Him, so he can put the pieces back together again.

“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and HEAL their land.”  2 Chronicles 7:14  God cannot heal someone who doesn’t even know they are broken.  He cannot work with HARD clay or HARD hearts.  But with BROKENNESS and humility he HEALS you completely.   God can take all my tiny, fragmented broken mess of a life and put it all back on His Wheel, The Potter’s Wheel, and add his special pliable dose of mercy, love, grace and forgiveness and suddenly, my brokenness is put all back together by a GREAT BIG GOD!

God wants to HEAL our land.  He wants us to replace the words that tear us down and steal the power He offers to us with His WORDS from His WORD.  Let’s replace our BROKENNESS today with HEALING.  Let’s lay down EVERY BROKEN hard chipped part of the beautiful pot he originally created in each of us, and let his HEALING WORDS HEAL our land.  Humble ourselves, pray and seek HIS face only and turn from what is BREAKING our lives apart, SIN.  It’s no easy journey, but laying around BROKEN into a million pieces serves NO purpose!  BRING IT ON GOD, I choose to speak the WORD HEALING TODAY.

HUGS.  SMJ