Broken

#1799

Only a broken heart!

(George Everard, "A Meditation for the Close of the Year" 1882)

"The LORD is close to the broken-hearted, and saves those who are crushed in spirit." Psalm 34:18

Only a broken heart can receive a bruised and crucified Savior!

"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise." Psalm 51:17 

"He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their wounds." Psalm 147:3 

God deliver me from anyone who has never experienced brokenness.  God save me from anyone who has never needed a savior.  Please God, help me to forgive those who lie, cheat, steal and do not think they will ever come under your judgment.  For those of us who have been deceived, defrauded, we can only forgive.  We cannot forget.

The disabled do not like to be victims, and yet we are victims.  In a world of make believe, pretending and performing, at the church house, at the school house, and most certainly at the court house.  It is hard to forgive those who are winners in life's lottery...who were blessed with a heritage of wealth/good looks/good health.  How many disabled/handicap people do you find in your church...the very place they should be welcome.  How many disabled/handicap people do you find in your parks/concert halls/civic clubs/educational advantages (meetings, self help groups), they are left out, not considered.

When I was a young boy, never athletic, I was never chosen for the ball team.  Later, having jumped through every hoop swam against every adversity (poverty, poor educational background) I had worked my way through 8 years of University Education, AND, then, Draft Doctor's Law, went into the Military...blind since. 

One day, two cousins came to visit me, one wanted to go to a certain restaurant where his deceased wife had eaten the last time we were together.  The three of us, grown, successful men received very poor service at the restaurant (Middle Of The Island, Wrightsville Beach, NC).  When this old blind veteran went up to pay the bill, I said to the Owner/Manager, "why did we get such poor service?" he said, "I do not encourage disabled people to come here, you make our normal customers uncomfortable".