Daily Devotional

“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” 

   Psalm 147:3 

When Joseph pleaded with his own brothers for his life, they wouldn't listen. They sold him, and he ended up in Egypt, first as a slave, then as a prisoner for something he didn't do. Even the one man he asked to remember him forgot him. By then, Joseph knew what a broken heart felt like. 

Egypt could easily have stayed a place of sorrow for him, even after he was free. But when his second son was born there, he put it this way: "God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering." Not somewhere new, far from the hurt. Right there, in the same land.

That's the God of today's verse: "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds." His healing is more than relief from the pain. It can bring something good to life in the very place where a heart was broken. 

He still does that. One day you may look back at the hardest place in your own story and say the very same thing Joseph did.

Father God, 

Thank You for promising to heal the brokenhearted, a promise I can hold on to whatever turns my life may take. If my heart is ever broken, please heal it, and bring something good to life right where it broke. 

Open my eyes to the good You are already doing around me. For all the days You give me, I want my life to bear good fruit for You, even in places I would never choose. 

In Jesus' name, Amen