YOU WILL EMERGE

We say time is a healer. But in this respect time can also be a destroyer. We need to go deeper.
 
Time serves the healing process and power well, this is true. Where healing is at work, time passing is progress. But what is this healing power? Today you sit shattered, a broken heart, gasping for air. Will I emerge from this pain?
 
A couple verses come to me in this place of spilt blood and mist of terror. Psalm 34:18 says,
 
'The Lord is close to the broken-hearted, and saves those who are crushed in spirit.'
 
God is not far from the broken, the rejected, or even the mocked and crucified. In fact, the lower you go and the lower you are, the closer you can be to Christ, 'fellowshiping with him in his sufferings.' (Phil 3:10)
 
His kingdom is upside down, giving preference of faith to the poor (James 2:5), preference of honor to the despised (Mark 14:1-11), preference of revelation to the persevering, weeping. (John 20:11-18)
 
Secondly, the prophet Ezekiel cries out God's heart and mission to us all, 'He will give you a new heart, and a new spirit!' (Ez 36:26) The appearance, death and resurrection story and spirit of Jesus Christ is so that we, too, can stand firm in pain, sorrow and even sin-stained clothing, and experience a new self emerge. This is God's
story and promise to each one of us.
 
Jesus said, 'I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.' (John 11:25-26)
 
There is a 'blood that speaks a better word' (Heb 12:24), which will pour over and into your broken heart, and give new life in and through your veins. You will emerge healed. You will emerge whole.
 
Cry out to Jesus today in faith, and time will serve his healing purposes in you.