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If you're even remotely paying any kind of attention to what's going on around you, there's a ninety-five percent chance that you're encountering people around you in your weekly experience who are "broken" (okay, I would have said "ninety-nine point nine nine nine nine" but I didn't want to be obnoxious).
By "broken" I simply mean that the person(s) in question is/are suffering somehow from inward distress due to fear/regret/pain (you name it) coming from either past experiences or choices, present difficulties, or future uncertainties (or undesirable "certainties" as the case may be).
In fact, you may be a "broken" person right now, inwardly struggling but feeling like you've fallen off the wall and that "all the king's horses" and "all the king's men" are just not gonna cut it fixing your broken heart.
Well, that might be right actually. The king's horses and his men just can't reach in deep enough to take all your pain away, erase the past, fix the present, and guarantee the future. They can't... but the King can. It is after all why He came.
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor, He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are downtrodden, to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord" (Luke 4:18-19 NAS).
So when He sends out "all the King's horses and all the King's men" in Matthew 28, He's sending them out to be vessels through whom He continues the ministry of preaching to the poor, proclaiming release to the captives, granting of sight to the blind, and setting free the downtrodden.
"All authority has been given to Me in heaven and earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age" (Matthew 28:18-20 NAS).
What's our business? Why are we here? It isn't to fix people but it IS to lead them to the One Who can "put them together again".
"And it came about that while He was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy; and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, 'Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.' And He stretched out His hand, and touched him, saying, 'I am willing; be cleansed.' And immediately the leprosy left him" (Luke 5:12-13 NAS).
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I've managed to get a little behind in my reading lately, but isn't it always just like God to have perfect timing? I just got the news that my grandson is being tested for autism. It's one of those things of which they're "90% certain." They would be men. But I know the King and a few of the King's men. Powerful work, Brother. Glory to God.
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