The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18
How do you respond to hurt? Our nature is to protect our hearts from pain and avoid the object that causes hurt. If it hurts bad enough, we will find a way to make sure that doesn’t happen again. I remember once when I lifted a lid off a tote in the garden while doing some work and as I gripped the lid a wasp tagged my finger in defense. Never did I think a wasp would ever be hiding under that lid, but mind you, I never put my hand under something without rattling it first! That hurt!
But what about in relationships when it seems we get hurt over and over again? It hurts too, but somehow vulnerable or not, we find ourselves in places where we always experience hurt. Getting dumped for a date, a casual comment made in passing by another, an action taken toward or against you, a blatant disregard. It all hurts and done over and over becomes a rather large wound.
How do we find healing when life brings hurt? Where do we turn when some of our relationships continually beat us in the head with a virtual two-by-four? Healing comes even in the midst of the bruises. God has given us the assurance and promise of His presence in the middle of brokenness and goes a step further! Just when we feel as though all is lost and nothing is left because of the mighty blows, He saves us . . . He saves the crushed spirit!
Lord Jesus, when I am brokenhearted, crushed in spirit and hurting, it is you in which I can trust! Remind me of your longing to save me, renew my heart and complete me! Fill within me those gaps that appear from not trusting in you in all things! You are my joy, my crown, my everlasting — you are my Comfort in times of hurt and my great Physician in healing my broken heart!
The righteous person may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all; he protects all his bones, not one of them will be broken. Psalm 34:19-20
by: Mark Cruver