“The LORD is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”
Two things: close and saves. Let’s look at saves first. The LORD “saves those who are crushed in spirit.” Saves is a great word. The Lord no matter what is going on in our lives saves us as long as we keep our faith in Him. Life brings about so many challenges, and more often than not we struggle and our spirit seems to be crushed. Luckily we have a Savior who gave up everything to come to this world as true man, and do all the work for us, so that we can reap the benefits. Just look at all the things that Christ endured in His life that could bring Him down and possibly give Him the idea to change his mind and not die on the cross for us. Everything from people not believing in Him, to spending time being tempted by the devil. The things that crush us in this life don’t really seem to even compare to me.
One more thing to look at. “The LORD is close to the brokenhearted.” I simply have a question and a confession to go with this one. First off the question. Does pretending you aren’t broken push you further away from God? My confession is that I do this entirely too often. I hide behind my everyday life and say that everything is ok. Life is just going swell and I have nothing on my mind. But just like everyone else I have stuff going on, and I sometimes feel myself having an even harder time because of the way that things bottle up. I like to look at it as a long run short run scenario. The short run really seems to push me further away from God. I’m not sure why, but it seems to. I find my mind wandering more and having a harder time praying like I want to and should. But in the long run I find myself looking at the whole situation and finding myself closer to God. It really is rather interesting.
So I propose the same question to you. Does pretending you aren’t broken push you further away from God? What do you think?
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To answer your question, at times, yes. Pretending as if you are not broken does seem to push you away from Him. But like you said, at the end of the hardship you some how find yourself closer to Him. I believe that could have something to do with the fact that you turn to Him when you do feel broken. You may hide your true feelings from your friends and family, and open up to Him instead. At least that is how I handle most troubling situations.
When you feel as if no one else could possibly understand or help your situation, you put your faith in something higher. Which in turn results in a closer relationship with God. It's a nice way to look at a bad situation and turn it in to something incredible. A lot of the time you don't see how He is using your situation to your advantage until after it is done with, most likely because you are blinded by your own burdens. Things tend to become more clear with time and it becomes easier to see what He was doing all along.
Wow Victoria, what a great comment. I really like that. That is brilliant insight and brightened my day here. Blessings.
I read this and thought that it correlated pretty well...
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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