For the Broken Hearted

God, you work in us and through us in ways beyond our small, self perceived definitions of you. No platform or scenario is beyond your working. To the contrary, it seems to be these shattered environments where you work most effectively. You find us in the valleys of brokenness and while the shadows are covering us with a blanket of heavy burden, you whisper to us in our disparity and tell us to "Be still and know...know that Im WITH you. Be still and know that i will call you out of darkness. And i will call you by name. I know you. I love you. I want to pour myself on you and take these burdens from you. I have every hair counted on your head. I knitted you together in the womb of your mother. I have drawn you to myself that you may know life and know it abundantly. I will never leave you nor forsake you for i am the Lord your God. Creator of the mighty and wondrous universe. Giver of all things good and lovely. For apart from me no one experiences joy or true love. For I AM love. Im the author of life. Im the one who breathed life into the valley of death...your valley. Im jealous for you and oh I love you. My affections run deep. A depth marked by grace and mercy. Grace and Mercy because I have no condemnation against you. I have no judgment on you. I have made you clean and my Father only sees me residing in you. I see your flesh. I see your sin. Only that i might pierce it with my gaze and burn off the hardness that would cause you to be distant from me. Im drawing you to myself. Im pursuing you. I love you individually and pursue you my son. Dont get wrapped up in the vast number of my children. I love YOU and am pursuing YOU. I have been since the day I finished a good work in you. The day of your salvation. Rejoice and be glad in it! I will restore to you the joy of your salvation. And not through times of comfort. But in times of darkness I will restore this joy. Your need for me will be made known in a way that has never been felt. Its a joy you've always prayed for but didnt know how to accept. Your need for my saving grace had not yet been realized. Dont fear the adversity of your failings. Im not shocked by your afflictions. I use them according to my will and purposes. The enemy has no hold over me. He isnt BEING defeated he has already BEEN defeated. I use his petty attempts to destroy you for MY glory. So fear not. Im with you and will never forsake you. The plans i have for you are great my son, because im the God of Jacob, David, and Abraham. Im the God of prostitutes, murderers and thieves. I am the God of the real. Im the God of the needy. I came for the sick not the ones who think they're healthy. I use the ones that want to be used. Their sin and failings are only a platform by which i can more passionately express my love to a world that needs my touch. Im broken for their sin, not embarrassed by it. I say to "go and sin no more" that they might taste more fully the goodness and love I have authored for their lives. Sin is my enemy because it pulls my beloved from me. You are not my enemy. You are my child and I love you."