Seeing Past the Brokenness
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 22 May 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 34:18, and today's worship is Providence by United Pursuit.
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| 0:00.0 | We are all broken people living in a broken world. |
| 0:08.0 | It's that simple. |
| 0:10.0 | Unfortunately, no one is exempt from the effects of sin. |
| 0:14.0 | But the good news for all of us is that Jesus steps into the midst of our brokenness, |
| 0:18.0 | is near to us, and makes us whole in his love. |
| 0:22.7 | What's even more amazing is that God wants to use you to see past the broken exterior to |
| 0:27.8 | the hearts of the people in your life. |
| 0:30.9 | Brokenness can make us hard, bitter, and difficult to deal with, but we've been given |
| 0:35.6 | the call to see past that heart exterior and love people in the midst of their pain. |
| 0:41.4 | In today's podcast, we're looking together at how we can see past the brokenness and others to love them well. |
| 0:48.2 | Welcome to the first of team podcast. |
| 1:06.0 | Our verse for today, Psalm 3418, reads, The Lord is near to the broken-hearted and saves the crushed in spirit. |
| 1:13.8 | Without perspective given by the Spirit, our love will only reach as far as the human eye can see. |
| 1:20.7 | Brokenness comes in all forms and fashions. Without Jesus, the man or woman covered in dirt and |
| 1:26.5 | filth, standing on the street corner, |
| 1:29.1 | begging for help, is just as broken as the millionaire lying and cheating his way into fleeting |
| 1:35.2 | fame and fortune. It's just that our brokenness takes on varying forms, depending on what |
| 1:41.6 | temptations and trials get the better of us. |
| 1:45.0 | Jesus saw past the brokenness to the hearts of those around him. |
| 1:50.0 | He chose to love and minister to the core of the person, rather than being intimidated by the symptoms of sin and those around him. |
| 1:59.0 | He saw into the heart of the woman at the well in John 4 |
| 2:02.6 | and ministered to her brokenness caused by failed marriages and sexual sin. |
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