Psalm 147:3 “He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.”
Sometimes the Children of God are “broken” as they fall into despair. When the fall leaves them so mentally wounded that they can barely function in life, discouragement sits upon them like an ominously dark cloud that never goes away. In such times as these, it seems that all joy is gone and misery upon misery is their constant diet. These beloved Children are oftentimes wounded by their own sin and other times by the awful circumstances of their lives. This is when the “Good Shepherd” (John 10:11) hears the sound of their crying and comes to them “and bindeth up their wounds”. He is “the Sun of righteousness” Who arises “with healing in his wings” (Malachi 4:2), He pours in “the oil of gladness” (Psalms 45:7) and binds “up their wounds”, He sooths the pain, and then healing begins. Then, as the healing begins, the wounded Children can be heard loudly declaring, “we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.” (II Corinthians 4:7-10). Oh come, let us now flee to the “throne of grace” (Hebrews 4:16), and their cry out to our Lord, He will hear our cry, for He loves us with a “great love” (Ephesians 2:4). It is at our Lord’s glorious “throne” that we find His comforting and healing “grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16). As the healing begins, let us joyfully pray, “What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?” (Psalms 116:12)!