Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Broken at Christmas - #8427

Friday, December 18, 2009

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It was a dumb way to spend a Christmas Day! We’d given our sons a brand new, professional quality football. It was an unusual 60-degree day, so we went outside to toss it. Then came the pass that I caught on the end of my little finger—bad idea. Off to the emergency room—broken finger on Christmas.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft, and let me tell you, Christmas is a lousy time to have something broken. And a lot of people do—maybe you. In fact, Christmas amplifies the hurting stuff: the broken relationship, the broken dreams, the broken heart.

When Jesus came that first Christmas, brokenness was one of the reasons. The Bible says of Him, “The Lord has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted” (Isaiah 61:1 ). For 2,000 years, this Jesus has put together broken pieces and broken lives as no one else can, because He came to fix the ultimate cause of so many of the broken things in this world—the spiritual cancer that the Bible calls sin, which is not about breaking somebody’s religious rules. Sin’s about breaking God’s heart by repeatedly choosing to run our life our way instead of His way. And a world full of people who’ve left God’s way to do whatever they want has left us with a trail of broken things. So Jesus came to break the power of that sin by allowing Himself to be broken for us. He said as He symbolized His death by breaking a loaf of bread, “This is My body, broken for you.”

The beginning of your inner healing is the day you place your life in the hands of Jesus, the great Healer of broken people. If you’d like to get that settled this Christmas season, would you check out our website today…ALifeThatMatters.org.

This radio program references: Isaiah 61:1