More often than I want to admit, I find myself
sitting in empty rooms or dark corners with tears in my eyes, feeling defeated
and broken and small. It is in these moments, when I am sitting by
myself, that I find it so easy to question God. But it is also in these
empty rooms and dark corners that I hear His whisper, “I have made you, I
will carry you, I will sustain you, I will rescue you.”
My God tells me, “Do not fear, for I am with
you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen
you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right
hand.” (Isaiah 41:10)
He reassures me that I am not destined to be
broken. “For I know the plans I have for you…plans for welfare and not
for calamity to give you a future and hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11 )
He tells me that He is “close to the
brokenhearted; He saves those who are crushed in spirit.” That “He heals
the brokenhearted and bind up their wounds.”
Life is filled with so much brokenness. But my God, He is able to
take the broken shards and put them back together beautifully, perfectly.
I know it is what He is doing with my life. And even though it is slow,
and sometimes so painful, I trust that it is His divine will that I will be
pieced back together and made whole again in Him.
