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The Forsakenness of Suffering

“Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.” Psalm 27:10

Closely related to other forms of suffering we have examined is that of forsakenness, especially from family and caregivers. Growing numbers of people in American culture experience this in some way, whether the suffering is from divorce, abuse, neglect, or abandonment. Many others experience this in adult life through painful rejections or break-ups.

We long for love as it was set out to be in the Garden of Eden. But in our sin-tainted world, love often fails. Those who grow up in broken homes may spend the rest of their lives reckoning with those wounds both through counseling and through the care afforded by Christ in His church. Healing is available, and it is coming to all those who are in Christ.

As the Psalmist reminds us, the Lord will take us in. Where other love fails, we are presented with a love that endures. There is something profoundly comforting in the fact that the Lord who rules over all and knows us inside and out also loves us. I don’t know why He puts many of us in broken homes, but I am certain that we are safe in His hand which holds us.

SCRIPTURE FOCUS
Psalm 27

INSIGHT
We can find healing for our forsakenness in the One who was forsaken for us.

THROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR
2 Chronicles 27-28
Psalm 21
Matthew 28

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