It breaks.
All of it. Anything of this world.
Friendships. Relationships. Marriages. Families.
Cars. Houses. Bridges.
Airplanes fall from the sky. Buildings collapse.
The world shakes.
Tornadoes reach down and touch the earth.
Hurricanes and tsunamis wash away people and dreams.
Devastation is part of our realm.
Life breaks.
Life wounds.
This world swirls with tragedy that can pull us down, bend our human bodies, and break our spirits.
And still, through it all, God stands.
He stands willing to take all of the brokenness and raise it into something beautiful.
He stands willing to take back the sinner, to hold the brokenhearted, to comfort the lost with words of love.
He stands strong for us when we are weak.
He saves from the flood.
He saves from the fire.
He saves, because he loves.
In this world we will always be hurt. We will confront cruelty and injustice. We will be beaten down by circumstance and by pain.
The world is designed to injure.
So we look to the heavens for comfort.
And He is there, always.
He has not promised that life will never hold deep and bitter things. He has not promised us that loss won’t touch us, or that we won’t become lost.
What he has promised is that in all things, and in all circumstances, He will never leave us.
So we fear.
And we worry.
And we wait out the storm.
Because we are human.
And He watches,
and waits,
and saves.
Because He is God.
Life breaks.
But as long as we hold tight to Him, we never will.
By: Bella @It Coulda Been Worse
ABOUT BELLA
Bella Said is a stay at home mom working hard to balance all of life's demands. She writes her blog, It Coulda Been Worse, between fixing meals, mending boo-boos, sewing dresses and washing never...
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Thanks for this reminder as the things of life are getting me down.
I loved this it could have been worse. I needed to hear these bueatiful words. You are so right Jesus could have rebelled and never died on the cross but he did not . That would have been changed every moment of joy and greatfulness God has given us.
Such Truth. What beautiful worship in your telling of it.
Bella, I just so much enjoy what you have to say, and I want to encourage you to *keep on*…let Him shine through you. And let Him show you His purposes for you, even in the smaller moments of His Grace-giving.
As much as I try to avoid the “breaking,” I am {still} learning to trust that even *this* has purpose.
Rich blessings in your own trusting in the breaking…
Bella:
I read this and smiled. God used you today to calm my anxious heart. Indeed, life breaks, over the last 3 months I discovered through a battery of tests that my liver is “broken.”
Today, we have a scheduled liver biopsy to find out just how much it is broken and I so needed to hear from Father God.
Thank you so much for being beautifully transparent and willing to write what He gives you.
-tonia
Amen- We are beautifully broken. Thanks so much for this reminder!
I am thankful that He is close to the broken hearted, that He has come to make the wrong things right.
This is beautiful and so very, very true. Thank you for the inspiring reminder.
Amen to that Bella.
I always say, when God restores what’s been wounded and/or broken, He does more than just put it back together, He makes it better than before, He’s the Potter, we are the clay, He’s the Master artist, we are the workmanship of His hands!
Beautiful….thanks
This writing was brilliant except for one tiny sentence which is troubling me, “The world is designed to injure.” What do you mean by that? ‘Cause I am here thinking that when God created the heavens and the earth it was good. But after the Fall every thing changed, so that even the creation now groans. Like I said, I’m not sure what that sentence means.
That one did make me go “huh?” too. But I didn’t think too much about it ‘cos the overall message wasn’t really affected by it.
Drey,
I totally get where you are coming from. I didn’t mean that God designed the world to injure, but that through our (man’s) sin and rebellion, the world and the people in it can and do injure us. Does that make sense?
I also feel like ijnury and pain can be an amazing route to God. I am glad and thankful for my hurt and my wounds, because they made me reach for my Healer. Without injury, would I have longed to be healed?
I hope that this makes more sense to you, and I thank you for your question, because it made me think alot too. :)
Bella
Bella, great way to view life….it could have been worst…
Great post, thought provoking to say the least.
Touched my soul and my heart!!! Wht a blessing you are
I stumbled across this devotional thru an Iphone app. This is one of my favorite commentaries reminding me that there’s always a Higher Power working all the time to take care of us.