The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. You will not despise a broken and humbled heart, God. —Psalm 51:17
Eight years ago, I lost a lifelong friend. Both of us had been broken by seasons of suffering, and out of our pain we misunderstood and hurt each other. After spending a year trying to work things out, I knew I could do no more to affect the outcome I had desperately prayed for.
Doesn’t God want this kind of relationship restored? I wondered. There has to be something else I can do to fix this.
God taught me to sit quietly in His presence, to trust Him with my confusion, and to embrace the humbling—knowing that “a broken and humbled heart” becomes the soil where beautiful things grow. I knew I could entrust myself to Him. I could entrust my friend to Him too.
One day soon our broken relationships will be joyfully restored in the presence of Jesus Himself. That hope should fill us with love for one another, even now before all things are made new. We love because He first loved us (1 John 4:19).
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“When We Can’t Fix the Relationship: Hope for Hurting Hearts” (ReviveOurHearts.com/blog)
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
Ask God to help you entrust to Him any broken relationships in your life and to find hope in Him through the pain.