"HE Heals The Brokenhearted And Binds Up Their Wounds!"

With the fragments of 

the broken hopes and joys

(J.R. Miller, "Help for the Day")

"The LORD is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit."
Psalm 34:18

It is strange how many of earth's 

most beautiful lives, have grown 

up out of what seemed defeat 

and failure. Indeed, GOD seems 

to love to build spiritual loveliness 

out of the castaway fragments 

of lives, even out of sin's debris.

In a great cathedral there is 

said to be a window made by 

an apprentice out of the bits 

of stained glass which were

thrown away as refuse and 

worthless, when the other 

windows were made--

and this is the most 

beautiful window of all.

In the same way, GOD can 

build a noble character for you, 

in spite of all the hurts and 

injuries done to you, wittingly 

or unwittingly, by others--

with the fragments of 

the broken hopes and joys, 

and the lost opportunities that 

lie strewn about your feet. 

No others by their worst 

work of hurt or marring, can 

prevent your building a 

beautiful character for yourself.

"HE heals the brokenhearted and 
binds up their wounds!" Psalm 147:3

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