Psalm 60
Sometimes I wonder about the scars from relationships. I worry about emotional baggage that may hinder future relationships. I wonder if some fractures can really be healed or if time just dulls the pain.
God, though, is the great healer. In these verses the psalmist cries out to Him because He is the one that can restore us (v 1); He is the one that mend the fractures (v 2) even when it seems like the earth is quaking beneath us. Broken hopes, broken hearts, broken trust… God can heal all of those in us. He is in the restoration business. “With God, we will gain the victory.” (v12).
I was talking to one of my friends tonight, and she told me that it is impossible to break a bone in the exact same place twice. A doctor told her that after she broke her arm twice in nearly the same spot. As she remembers it (and we haven’t verified the medical veracity of this) the doctor told her that breaks never happen along a previous break. It is as if the new bone growth from the healing process gives that section of bone a new strength that makes it much less susceptible to breaking.
I like that picture. Maybe when we have scars, God applies His special healing that mends the hurt and through that healing process God restores us in ways that give us new wisdom, strength, and grace for all that lies ahead, that enable us to continue to be open to new relationships and at the same time stronger than we were before.
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