“He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds.” Psalm 147:3.
Sometimes, when there is nothing to hold on to, or it seems as if there is no place to go, refuge and comfort for the soul can be found in God’s Holy Word alone:
“He heals … Psalms One Hundred Forty Seven verse Three.
and maybe that’s as far as we can go somedays. But there is hope in the words, ‘He heals.’
Because, God’s Word is true. He speaks what is. Whether we can believe it or not. There is no shadow of turning with God. God is love, (1 John 4:8).
God doesn’t get moody and irritated. He doesn’t just walk out the door. He doesn’t give up on anybody. He is Holy and righteous. God is all-together lovely. God is love – yesterday, today, and forever.
There is no One like God. Doctors can bring about healing, but ‘He heals.’
He is big enough for our unbelief. He loves in a way that’s never-ending. Can we ever fully understand all that?
He knows this broken world we live in, so His perfect word spells out in black and white letters on the page: “He heals the broken hearted.”
And maybe we can only get that far, but when we close the Book, we grope for some light in the dark tunnel. And, it shines,
so gently,
so quietly,
but it’s there:
‘He heals the broken-hearted.’
And, nothing makes sense, and the pain is unbearable, but then those words come back in a whisper, and somehow,
I’m not sure how,*
but the thoughts make the next breath possible to endure: ‘He heals the broken-hearted.’
And God, who is amazing and knows everything, knows that the Book will be opened again, just to look at what’s next.
The black and white letters on a page, that’s all they are, but Somehow so much more.
God, He breathed out the words, and whether or not, right now we can even believe they are true, God says, He not only heals, but He binds up … their wounds.”
*Yes, we can actually Know how.
God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, three in One. They will never leave us. The Holy Spirit reveals what is true, and the mystery is, in our hunger and thirst, we finally seek, Truth:
“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.” (1 John 4: 7-9).
Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[j]
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[k]neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.(Romans 8:34-38)
This is a comfort to our affliction: “Thy Word has given me life.” (Psalm 119:50.
“He heals. The broken-hearted. And He binds up their wounds.”