Happy Friday, everyone!

I’m standing at a park in Aurora, Colorado, where I have some history. In fifth grade, a girl bet me that she could jump out of the swing farther than I could, and I took that bet—and I lost it. As I was getting ready to make my jump, I went to the top of my swing, pulled back, and was going to jump.

As soon as I swung forward and my hand slipped off that chain, I flipped out of the swing and hit this cement wall behind me with my arm, and I broke my arm. I didn’t realize that I broke my arm until I stood up and felt a sharp pain. I looked down and saw my forearm hanging at a right angle.

To say that I was terrorized is an understatement. My friend at the time sprinted down the three blocks from this park to my house to get my mom, and I was screaming. I remember when my mom got here, I looked at her and said, “My arm’s ruined. I’ll never use my arm again.”

And my mom told me, “Chris, we’re going to get you to the doctor. We’re going to get you to the hospital, and they can fix this.” I still remember what I said. I looked at her like she was crazy, looked at my arm, and said, “They can fix this?” And sure enough, they did. Now, it wasn’t immediate. It took some time, obviously. They had to put my arm in a cast, and it took time to heal.

I think about that when it comes to our sin. There is something broken in us—so many things broken in us through sin—and we need that healing. We need things to be set right.

The scripture for this weekend comes from Jeremiah: “O Lord, if you heal me, I will be truly healed; if you save me, I will be truly saved. My praises are for you alone.” (Jeremiah 17:14) My arm did heal, and I’m looking for that day in heaven when, in the journey of this life, sin will be no more in my life, and there will be an opportunity for us to be whole, complete, and absolutely healthy as we were first created to be before sin broke everything in this world.

I’m not sure where you are in your health journey right now, but perhaps that would be a verse that would mean a lot to you this weekend. I pray it does, because in Christ we are promised a healing—a healing of eternal life, a healing of abundant life, that abundance coming back to us after living so many years in the brokenness of our sin, our failures, and the sin of others.

And so I pray that you would lift your head this weekend, that you would be encouraged as you go into this weekend, remembering that we are not home yet. The healing is not complete yet, but one day—one day—it will be.

Prayer
Lord Jesus, thank You so much for healing us. You brought about that healing because You took the brokenness—the brokenness that we brought into this world through our own sin. You took all of that brokenness. You became broken on the cross for the forgiveness of all our sins. And from that forgiveness, You give us new life. You rose from the grave and give us eternal life that we can celebrate and continue to live in.