The Mess of Rejection

How many of you know what Jesus Christ came to do? You ever thought about that? He came to seek and save that which is lost, us.

Came to set the captives free.

Came to give us abundant life.

He came, the Bible says, to set the sinners in salvation.

But he also came to heal the brokenhearted, which is a really awesome scripture, which was found in Luke 4.18. And where it talks about the brokenhearted, the original language actually talks about a shattered heart.

And there are people who could be cruising around, and maybe your story this morning, it's you have a shattered heart, broken heart.

maybe a subject to the storms of life or a bereavement or a loss, a situation that's gone down heavy on your soul, and it shatters your heart.

You feel like it's broken in a million places.

But what the one thing is the Lord is a healer.

He's a great physician.

So He's not just talking about... healing our physical frame, our physical body, and having us walking in what is called divine health is actually referring to healed mind or restored mind, healed memories, memories of the past and things that have happened that haven't been great, healing those, restoring our thinking, but also healing our emotions and bringing our emotions into wholeness.

And one of the things I have prayed, and I think it's a good prayer to pray, is that, Father, that you would help me to be emotionally whole.

So the lens of how we view life is through wholeness.

It's not through rejection.

It's not through aggro.

It's not through resentment or entitlement or unforgiveness and so forth.

It's actually through wholeness, emotional wholeness.

But that's part of the deal.

That's part of His provision.

That's what He wants for us.

And we get older, and if we don't deal with these things honestly, we don't deal with it, it doesn't get any better.

It actually grows.

You think, you know, the thing's just like a little monster or a little seed that grows into a plant.

It gets bigger and bigger and bigger.

The thing grows all the time.