The beauty of Grace is incalculable. For just one
instance, when we are broken and busted up by life, God always finds a way to
use us, if we are willing, and in so doing he reminds us of our redemption – in
the helping of others.
Notwithstanding how forlorn we are by our circumstances, the worse our
shame, and the noisiness of our guilt – all for one and one for all – these, are
smashed by Grace. The lower we go, the higher Grace takes us. There are no
depths that God won’t go to in raising us to the highest of heights, having
sought him. The more we are forgiven the more we can love.
God’s pleasure in a broken arrow is profound.
It’s like the bipolar person I know who reaches into several lives – by
God’s power and grace – in liberating people from similar scourges. They are the
wounded healer; a broken arrow, fixed by God, destined for a target that was,
from before time, divinely purposed.
God has great plans for every person, and possibly bigger and bolder
plans for the broken person, who, by divine gift of Grace, is being transformed
into an arrow. Arrows are purposed, focused tools that are nothing if they
aren’t focused on a target, and when that target is one of redemption and
salvation no other target is relevant.
The whole of our lives is about the subject of God’s redemption and
salvation of humankind, and what it means to us as individuals – this love of
God’s – and how that might convert into our love for others who may appear, or
be, lost.
The further we have been in our struggles in the midst of life the more
we have to offer that one ailing against the hurricane force winds that blow
with untenable ferocity, bringing them to their knees in a season of life that
pushes them far too hard, and many into the unfathomable abyss.
The broken arrow has great purpose – one of sincere life or death
magnitude – as they intercede for the broken in the midst. God knows it’s the
broken arrow that can see the broken person in need of help. That broken person
in need of help will not be helped by just anybody, for they need someone who
has lived and breathed similarly as they have.
There is a sharp importance, therefore, in the wounded healer, the
broken arrow, as they minister to the broken hearted. They believe in a God who
searches for and seeks the lost sheep – that one in a hundred (as we should
also). They have eyes for the needy and a heart that desires to soothe.
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God’s pleasure pulsates with power in the broken arrow – the wounded
healer who has been healed and serves by a targeted strength in their weakness,
that the broken person in their midst would have hope. God’s grace is
passionate and targeted for the lost sheep; the more lost we have been, the
more use we may be for the Kingdom.
© 2013 S. J. Wickham.
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