Father God let this touch someone’s heart today in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
Our dogs they hate the thunder and the rain. So, I put them outside and they scratch on the door to get back in. So, I open the door. They run in. I go outside and shut the door. They scratch on the door to get back out. So I open the door and they run outside with me. I shut the door and walk down the yard and keep walking till I get to the end. The job is done. I walk back up the yard and go in the house. Then they come running and I let them in. I give them their treats. That was a tough job for them to do. But with my help. They did it! Then I rewarded them.
This is what God does for us.
“Good is its own reward.” But we may also wonder whether God rewards us in other ways if we obey His Word. Proverbs 11:17-19; Kindness is its own reward, but cruelty is a self-inflicted wound. The wicked earn a living by deception, but the one who plants righteousness gathers a true harvest. Indeed, those who do what is right will live a good life, but those who pursue evil will die.
Feeling broken usually means that you feel like there’s something you don’t know how to change but want to; there are usually additional words or thought patterns that can help you get a fuller picture of what’s going on and how to address it. We need to be beautifully broken before the Lord. He will use the brokenness in our lives to draw us nearer to Him. Once we are broken before Him, He can put us back together the way He sees fit. Then we can be beautifully restored through Him but first we have to trust Him with our brokenness.
It reads in Psalm 1:1-4; “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law, he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so but are like chaff that the wind drives away.” When we follow the way of wisdom, we reap better experiences, and those better experiences produce rewards such as material provision, relational benefits, and mental and emotional health. Those are God’s rewards for people who follow His instruction.
“When I first got my tracheostomy is a surgically created hole (stoma) in your windpipe (trachea) that provides an alternative airway for breathing.”
I went through a long healing process. A lady who was a volunteer brought a talker that you hold up to your neck and she helped me to talk with it. I couldn’t talk. This lady Sally was in her 80’s but she was showing me something new. Because she also had a trac, so she was able to show me exactly how it worked. But this was after I had already had an old talker that was given to my niece Sophia by a man with a trac at Wal-Mart. Old fashion talkers that you stick up to your neck and talk. They looked like old half phones. Now if you know me, I have a trac in my throat. An air hole that God knew would save lives one day. But through all my brokenness. God sent experienced people in my path who was also healing, and they were able to encourage me. My daughter Lena and family bought me a new talker that following Christmas. It was a great surprise. It was new and didn’t look like a half of telephone. More like a microphone. This was in 2003. God is good cause I prayed I could talk again and sing again. I can talk and sing not perfect. God has so blessed me all these years. God knew that brokenness could bring us blessings through our healing. Nothing we could have earned nor deserved. But God’s love through others can take our brokenness and keep bringing blessings as long as we don’t stay in our brokenness. Isaiah 53:5, reminds us that Jesus Christ knew brokenness firsthand. Scripture tells us He “was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.” Christ’s submission to becoming broken led to the healing of our wounds. Brokenness was not the end of the story for Jesus, and through Him, neither is it the end of our story!
Let’s read Isaiah 53:5-10; But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities, the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth, he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. By oppression and judgment, he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested. For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished. He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
The funny thing about healing is that something healed still holds the memory of its former brokenness. I still have nasty scars of my own that serves as a reminder of instances I experienced in the past. A day is coming when we will be fully healed from our brokenness and pain will be wiped from our memory. What a beautiful reminder that we should never be ashamed of our own brokenness and healing, because it is through that very brokenness and healing that we can encourage others.
{Let’s Pray}
Father God, I want to walk in Your ways and keep from foolishness in this world. Keep my heart and mind set on You Lord Jesus so that my thoughts are not influenced by the mindset of this world. I thank You and praise You for the beautiful description of the man or woman who is like a tree firmly planted by streams of living water, producing blessed fruit of righteousness and prospering through Your never-failing provision. I thank You and praise You Lord Jesus who is my worthy High Priest and that You walked this earthly pathway before me. I thank You and praise You Lord Jesus that You know and care about the difficulties I face in my earthly walk. I thank You and praise You that the Holy Spirit is accompanying me through all the changing scenes of life and is with me in every daily task I undertake. Brokenness is my past and blessings are my future as I walk in the light with You in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
{Power Verse}
“For the LORD knows the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”
Psalm 1:6
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