Feeling Too Broken for God’s Love? Your Heart Can Still Grow Closer to Him

Apr 21

In this episode, I share more about how this truth has played out in my own life — and the steps you can take to make it real in yours.

Romans 8:28 (NLT) says, “And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.”
👉🏻 God can not only heal our wounds, but use them as a gateway to deeper intimacy with Him. Sometimes in extraordinary ways.
There are numerous examples in the Bible of people who experienced major trauma, yet that ended up creating deep intimacy with God.
🧕🏻 Example #1: Mary Magdalene

As Luke 8:2 tells us, Mary had been possessed by seven demons.
As a result, she was also socially marginalized and spiritually enslaved.
Her situation was full of pain and trauma. Everything about her life looked bleak, lonely, and hopeless.
But then she met Jesus–who delivered her from the demons.
Afterward, Mary, along with several other women, traveled with Jesus and His disciples (Luke 8:1-3).
Mary was also present at Jesus’ crucifixion and was the first to witness His resurrection.
Mary’s pain and brokenness brought her closer to God, which affected her personally, but also ended up affecting history.

In Genesis 37, Joseph is betrayed by his brothers and sold into slavery.
Just when things start to look up, he’s falsely accused and imprisoned.
As if that wasn’t bleak enough, after Joseph helped the royal cupbearer who had been imprisoned, he was forgotten instead of helped.
Joseph endured several accounts of betrayal.
Yet through these trials, Joseph learned to trust God fully.
And ultimately, God ensured that Joseph rose to power in Egypt and became a conduit for God’s provision.
Joseph’s broken circumstances deepened his reliance on God. This, in turn, deepened the relationship.

When we meet Hannah in 1 Samuel 1, she’s experiencing deep pain. Her greatest desire is to have a baby.
Her husband isn’t very empathic. And his other wife, who does have children, has been taunting Hannah.
Hannah is childless, mocked, and emotionally crushed by societal and familial pressure.
So what does she do?
She pours her heart out to God in prayer, vowing that if He granted her a child, she would dedicate that child to Him.

(Note: she’s so honest and raw in her prayers that one of the priests in the Temple initially thinks that she’s drunk.)

God hears her and, in response, tells her that she will get pregnant–and she does.
Then when it’s time, Hannah brings little Samuel to the Temple where he grows up to become a prophet.
Afterward, God blesses Hannah with more children–three sons and two daughters.
Hannah’s heartbreak was real and deep.
Yet instead of it being a barrier to her relationship with God, it led to an ongoing, intimate relationship with Him–plus the birth of Samuel, who would become a prophet.

👉🏻 These three individuals experienced very deep, painful wounds. Yet they weren’t “too wounded” for God.
In fact, in God’s safe, healing hands their wounds actually make them stronger.

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