Unbroken

“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”
Psalm 147:3

“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; all the kings’ horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again.” We’re all a bit broken in some way and nothing in the world can put us back together. The brokenness of our world weighs on me sometimes. My own self doubts and inability to stand up to others standards leave me feeling inadequate and broken. I suspect that many people deal with similar feelings of being irreparably broken. Some search the world for someone or something that can put them back together, to make them worthy and adequate. But like our egg friend Humpty Dumpty – the world can’t put itself back together let alone us.

Thankfully, we have not been left on this planet to stay in our brokenness – unless of course you like being broken. There is someone, not of this world who can unbreak us. In this week’s passage the psalmist is getting his praise on big time and reminds himself and everyone within ear shot that the God of the universe, the creator of everything can “heal the brokenhearted and bind up our wounds.” We don’t have to search the world over in order to be put back together, God will meet us where we are - all we have to do it call out and lay our broken selves before Him.

Now don’t get me wrong – God will bring healing yes, but He may take His time and there may be some pain involved in the putting back together process. But trust that the One who made you, the One who never intended for you to be broken in the first place is absolutely able to unbreak you.

How have you been broken? Has your health broken? Has someone who is supposed to care about you betrayed you and broken your trust or your heart? Are you broken financially? Are you filled with self doubt because the world has unreasonable expectations of how you should look or dress or what you should earn?

No matter what you are facing or how broken you feel – let Jesus have it, have you and soon enough you will be unbroken.

A Prayer
Father – Thank you for the healing that Your Son brings to our lives when we call on Him. Meet us where we are and unbreak us, put us back together so that we can see You in our eyes and so others can see Your image in us too. Once You have put us back together again, help us to live our unbroken lives out loud so that others will find the healing only You can give. In the name of Jesus, who is able to restore us, so we are unbroken we pray – Amen.