After Brad lost his plan for redemption, I asked him, âBrad, why donât you just let God love you?â He squirmed in his chair. I know, it seems painfully obvious, but Iâm telling you few men are ever so vulnerable as to simply let themselves be loved by God. We let God love us we let him get really close to us. On them it rested.â Grief is a form of validation it says the wound mattered. streamed down, and I let them flow as freely as they would, making of them a pillow for my heart. As Augustine wrote in his Confessions, âThe tears. For in grieving we admit the truthâthat we were hurt by someone we loved, that we lost something very dear, and it hurt us very much. It is so important for us to grieve our wound it is the only honest thing to do. All those years of sucking it up melted away in my grief. The tears that flowed were the first Iâd ever granted my wound, and they were deeply healing. Oh what a milestone day that was for me when I simply allowed myself to say that the loss of my father mattered. Enter my heart and soul, my wounds and brokenness, and bring your healing love to me in these very places. Lord Jesus, I give my life to youâeverything I am, everything I have become. Let mine be a merry, all-receiving heart, but make it a whole, with light in every part.âīut you canât do this at a distance you canât ask Christ to come into your wound while you remain far from it. As MacDonald prayed, âGather my broken fragments to a whole. Ask him to release you from all bondage and captivity, as he promised to do. So take him at his wordâask him in to heal all the broken places within you and unite them into one whole and healed heart. This is the central passage in the entire Bible about Jesus, the one he chooses to quote about himself when he steps into the spotlight in Luke 4 and announces his arrival. Christ comes to restore and release you, your soul, the true you. The Messiah will come, he says, to bind up and heal, to release and set free. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,Īnd release. The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
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