I have had several friends over the past 48 hours reach out for prayer, for pastoral assistance, for a word of encouragement, or just simply to say that they feel broken right now. This word is for them, but it may also be for you. Partake as you please:
Dear Friend, please know how precious and dearly beloved you truly and sincerely are. Know that, whether you believe or not, the Lord God conceived you in the divine thought well before you were conceived in your mother’s womb. Whatever that divine conception looked like, there every fibre of your being was set up as unique as one being could be. You are such a priceless being, there is no one like you, and you could never be replaced.
If you are feeling like you could be replaced, that you’re not that special, let me assure you that there would be many people cast into a world of pain if you weren’t here. And in some ways, to call it a ‘world of pain’ is a colossal understatement. If you were not around it would change the life direction of many lives, and even if it we’re only one life, isn’t that such a significant thing? You are quite simply irreplaceable.
Perhaps you feel broken by the weight of a journey before you, or a journey behind you that still has not been reconciled, or maybe the present moment is unbearable. It could be a triple-whammy of all three. Please know that you are not alone, that there are hearts interceding for you right now. Hearts who want peace for you and the return of your hope and joy. Hearts who will stop at nothing less than praying for your full healing.
Maybe as you ponder these words or prayers, sobbing in mobs of tears, forlorn and stricken with untenable, mystical anguish, you are able to hold out a moment’s hope. Surely that moment’s hope holds within it the prayer that says, “This, too, shall pass,” and “soon this shall all make sense.”
As you hold in your left hand a suffering that isn’t compensable, together with a hope that all things can be made new in your right, you come close to God and God comes close to you, because — whether you feel the Lord or not — the Lord God can never be far from those who are contrite of heart.
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