“Even in laughter the heart is sad,
and the end of joy is grief.”
— Proverbs 14:13 (NRSV)
HORROR is the
end of things so we are best to have a veritable relationship with God to
vouchsafe wellbeing. I hate to sound like a pessimist, because, in living
effect I am not. I am a realist in this: we will all be rattled by grief,
anxiety or hurt at some stage. Those who aren’t, don’t need to be ministered
to, but those who are may find they are intractably drawn to be ministered to and to minister.
God’s heart for
humanity is captured in the brokenness of people. Where humanity most represents
humanity, God most represents God. When we can be truly human — that is, broken
and true — God can truly be God in the midst of our need.
God is always
God but our Lord can’t be for us everything we need him to be unless we make
way.
All we need to
know is that God’s heart is for us when we are battling manfully just to
get through the shadowy valley.
This is my personal experience…
The amount of
times I poured out tears, soaking an already saturated pillow, crying tears so
densely heavy they would make sounds upon the floor as they fell, God was with
me.
As I shed those
tears — feeling most estranged to life — I knew that God knew what I was going
through.
As I would
journal my mood and emotion would ebb and flow from a restrained sorrow to
anger to an overwhelming pity for my situation — God’s empathy awash through my
soul.
It was easy to
see the Spirit’s work in all this as I felt the healing of my indignation with
a compassion I could feel — a compassion that was directed like an arrow into
the heart of my brokenness, itself. I never hid my brokenness. I would laud it
before the Lord so he could direct his compassion right there, into the heart
of it.
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God’s heart for
the grieving, the anxious, the hurting — the broken — is compassion enacted as
a direct hit as an arrow into the heart of our brokenness.
God’s heart for
the broken is an arrow of compassion directed into the heart of our brokenness.
Pierced, a sorrowful pressure is released eliciting compassion and healing.
Compassion felt is
healing and wholeness experienced.
God’s heart for
the broken can never be denied. Compassion is eternal. It is destined to heal the
heart of the broken. All the broken-hearted need do is be open.
© 2015 Steve Wickham.
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