Healing for the Broken

"Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." ~Proverbs 16:24

      I decided to skip around in my one word bible study, because I was burdened today with the word healing. I don't think we can discuss the word healing without discussing the brokenness that needs healing. Today, especially, is a day when the brokenness of the world is so overwhelming when we remember the tragedy of 12 years ago and how the world will forever be affected by that fateful day. If you are old enough to remember that day, you most certainly will never forget where you were and what you doing when you heard the news of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Pennsylvania. Brokenness flooded a city, a nation, and the world in one fell swoop as shock and anger followed close behind.
      I was also overwhelmed, today, with the brokenness of so many of my students and all of the teenagers and young adults that I have the privilege of knowing. The exposure and demands in the world of teenagers today is unbelievable. They are precious, sweet sons and daughters of the King just struggling to find their identities in so many things and being pressured from every direction imaginable.
     Healing seems almost impossible in this broken world and these broken lives. But the world has been broken, these lives have been broken. Since The Fall. But God. I will say it again. But God. He had a plan. He had a plan for healing. He sent his son. To die on a cross. For our sins. For our brokenness. He is our redeemer. He is our superhero. He is our healer. Always.Matthew 4:23 says: " And he went throughout all of Galilee teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the Kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people."
       Jesus rescued us from this broken world, and he calls us to LOVE one another. Gracious words are healing to the bones. We are to act out of love in every circumstance. We are to respond in love in every situation. I love the way that 1 Peter 4: 8 from the Message explains it. "Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for practically anything." We are called to love each other. Our lives and the lives of others depend on it.

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