Brokenness and healing

“make level paths for your feet so that what is lame… may not be, but rather healed”

All the promises of God are “yes” and “amen”. In Christ, we are the righteousness of God.

What does that mean?  I heard Joyce Meyer talk about God replacing our “wrong-ness” with his “rightness”. I agree.

1. Romans 3:22
   This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference,
   
   
2. Romans 5:17
   For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God‘s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
   
   
3. 1 Corinthians 1:30
   It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
   
   
4. Galatians 2:21
   I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”
   
   
5. Philippians 1:11
   filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.
   
   
6. Philippians 3:9
   and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.
   
   

But we have to make a decision.  It is up to us to allow the healing to begin by ourselves making the right choice.

“The eyes of all look to him, and he gives us food at the proper time.”

There is a promise of wholeness and healing, and it will come to pass. It is guaranteed.  But in order to make it happen we have to look to him. How it happens, and the timing becomes immaterial.

We only know that our full redemption: healing, wholeness , meaning, eternity, is found in Him.

“You are my portion” says the psalmist, and we learn to agree with him.

As we make level paths for our feet, a highway in the desert for our God the healing has begun, not only of us but of the nations.

“The leaves of the tree (of life) are for the healing of the nations”

We the church, grounded in him, are the tree of life that brings healing to the nations, as we ourselves, in our brokenness are healed.  As we look to him.

Restoration

Scripture talks of the great and terrible day of the Lord, the day of reckoning and judgment. But judgment in God’s eyes is a good thing; it is a making right, and those of us who do what is right, to those who are being made right, have nothing to fear.

Paul says, with respect to a number of shortcomings and outright immoralities that the church of the time was living amongst (and previously in), that “this is what some of you were”.

But… you were washed, you were saved, you were healed. Maybe the washing and the healing is happening in the present tense. In fact for all of us in many areas it is, as we come to him daily.

All that is required of us to avoid the terrible and embrace the greatness of the day of the Lord is to call upon His name.

Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved, Peter says, in the book of Acts chapter 2. He’s quoting the prophet Joel.

God promises restoration. To those who revere my name, he says, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in it’s wings.

Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people: but the glory of the Lord will arise over you, and his glory will be seen upon you. Which was God’s promise for Israel in Isaiah, and is God’s promise for us today, those who call upon his name.

“To as many who received him, he gave the right to become children of God.”

Strengthen your bedraggled hands and feeble knees…

…and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather healed.

God wants to strengthen us, lift us up so that we can shine in these days in which we live.

From the strengthening flows healing, from the healing salvation, from the salvation praise.

God himself will do the strengthening, God himself will do the healing.  We simply need to call upon his name.

Call upon the name of the Lord and be saved.

Isaiah 40:

“Comfort, yes, comfort My people!”
Says your God.
“ Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her,
That her warfare is ended…

“ Prepare the way of the LORD;
Make straight in the desert
A highway for our God.
Every valley shall be exalted
And every mountain and hill brought low;

Psalm 28:

The LORD is my strength and my shield;
My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped;

Therefore my heart greatly rejoices,
And with my song I will praise Him.

The LORD is their strength,
And He is the saving refuge of His anointed.

Save Your people,
And bless Your inheritance;
Shepherd them also,
And bear them up forever.

For You will light my lamp;
The LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

Psalm 18:

For by You I can run against a troop,
By my God I can leap over a wall.

As for God, His way is perfect;
The word of the LORD is proven;
He is a shield to all who trust in Him.

For who is God, except the LORD?
And who is a rock, except our God?

It is God who arms me with strength,
And makes my way perfect.
He makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
And sets me on my high places.
He teaches my hands to make war,
So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.