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Thoughts on Today’s Verse
There is a lovely little chorus we used to sing many years ago that would give the same sort of comfort as the words of this beautiful verse, for we have a good and wonderful God, and He truly is able to heal the broken-hearted and to bind up the wounds of one that is destitute:
He is able, He is able, I know my Lord is able,
I know my Lord is able to carry me through.
He is able, He is able, I know my Lord is able,
I know my Lord is able to carry me through.
He heals the brokenhearted, He sets the captive free,
He makes the lame to walk again, and He makes the blind to see.
He is able, He is able, I know my Lord is able,
I know my Lord is able to carry me through.
Often when difficulties happen or when problems rise up in life, we need to turn our hearts to the comforting words of Scripture. We need to grab a promise and hold on to that promise, knowing that we have a wonderful and faithful God Who has promised to be with us in all the twists and turns of life. He has committed to be our sufficiency in all situations.
There is a wonderful rest that the Lord can give to those that are His, in the midst of the troubles that life which seem to shower over our heads or that try to bury us in the depths of depression. We need to rest in the trust that we have in our Saviour. We need to Faith-Rest. Resting in the faith that we have in the Lord, abiding in the arms of our God.
But how can you and I Faith-Rest when our lives are shattered and the brokenness of our heart is haemorrhaging? Well, we simply need to remember that the Word of God is life and health. His Word is true and trustworthy; His Word is perfect and pure, and His promises to us endure from one generation to another. And God has promised to “heal the broken-hearted and bind up their wounds.”
What He has done for others, He will do for you. Let us trust in His love, rest in His promises, and believe the truth of God’s Word which tells us that “He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their wounds,” and He is able because He went to the Cross on our account, and shed His blood to become our substitute.
Let us hold on to the truth that our Saviour suffered for us so that He was able to both heal our hearts and bind up our wounds. And His grace is sufficient.
My Prayer
Loving Father, thank You for Your promise to bind up my brokenness and heal my hurt. May I walk humbly before You, trusting Your many precious promises. I know that You are willing and able to carry me through any and every situation that life may throw at me. Thank You so much for Your loving-kindness toward me. In Jesus’ name, AMEN.
Bible References
3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
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