Broken

 

 

Somewhere in time, this week, I have been praying for people who are sick.  Not with the cold or flu, but with life threatening illnesses.  My sister’s husband is battling cancer. My cousin just found out she has ALS. My Aunt is suffering with Leukemia.

The question is why. Why do some people get sick, while others stay healthy? Is it in the food or the water or our DNA?  I have been told that ALS is not hereditary yet, my father, two of my uncles and one aunt died from the disease.  Why us?  Does God love other people more than us?

I don’t believe that. I know that God died for each of us the same way.  He loves each of us enough to die for us, so why do bad things happen?

I have known for a long time that the world is broken.  In the Garden of Eden, we didn’t have sickness and disease, we had paradise. Yet humans chose to believe the lie of the serpent and the perfect world God created became broken by our hand.

Sometimes I can get depressed by what is happening around me, to people I love.  It seems hopeless.  Yet I know, deep down, that our hope is not in this broken world, our hope is in Christ.  If he can make the universe and everyone in it, he can take care of us in our distress.

Jesus was speaking in Luke 4: 18-19 (The Message Bible) “God’s spirit is on me; he’s chosen me to preach the Message of good news to the poor,  Sent me to announce pardon to prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, To set the burdened and battered free, to announce, “This is God’s year to act!”

I know he said that several years ago, but I know he is still here to set the burdened and battered free.  He came to give hope to the hopeless and strength to the powerless. My prayer for 2013 is that this will be the year for God to act in miraculous ways in my family.  I pray this for your family also.

Bebo Norman - The Broken (Official Acoustic Performance) from bebo-norman on GodTube.