Daily Devotionals

Bowen's Daily Meditations

Devotional: October 15th

"He healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds." - Psalms 147:3.

Yet there are many that die of a broken heart. Some beautiful dream vanishes after having lured them to embark all their hopes and affections upon it the phantom vessel disappears and they are left a prey to the angry billows; but even then, would they but know it, there is deliverance for them. Admit that all their hopes are blasted; God, whose matchless title is this, " The God of hope," remains. All the good you have dreamed of, and infinitely more, resides in him. God is not dead; why then should you die? The Physician of souls rejoices when some very shattered and woe-worn heart of man is brought to him to be healed: he has then a peculiar opportunity of showing what he can do. This Physician was himself made perfect through sufferings; made perfect to deliver others from suffering. His heart was once melted within him; he was wounded for our transgressions. He knoweth how to succor them that are tempted; to heal the broken hearted.

Have you lost some very precious object? He teaches you that all truly precious things are precious to God, and are to be counted as altogether safe with him when they disappear from your sight. He then reveals to you something of his own excellence, his own preciousness, so that you are soon found rejoicing with joy unspeakable and full of glory. He does not make light of your affections, though they may have been erring; he makes no mock of your broken heart; your sorrow is sacred with him; but he brings you into a path that leads to a city where all the good are gathered together, and death and pain have no admission.

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