Friday, March 27
Psalm 34:17-23. God is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
| There was a
summer in my life where my world had been turned completely upside down. My fiancé
and I had ended our two-year relationship and everything I had planned and hoped
for vaporized into thin air. Although I knew God was a righteous, loving, and
all-knowing being who had my best interest at heart, out of anger from hurt and
confusion, I blamed God with a passion for allowing such tragedy to occur. Blaming
God felt good and had momentarily released me from the frustrations of my
distress. After wrestling with God through prayer, my attitude had changed and an unfathomable calming peace manifested itself in my conscious mind. At that moment, I knew there was hope for the future and I would be able to endure through such hard times. It was as if a bottled up pressure had been released within me. I was wrong to blame God and had made up with God since then. Throughout that summer, God had answered prayers in unprecedented record timing and performed miracle after miracle, reminding me that God was there and still cared. God sure is close to the brokenhearted and ironically, God used my stabbing accusation as a starting point to bring light into my dark and broken world. What a loving God! - Daniel Yang, Admissions Counselor |