Healing - Check out Malachi 4:2

Are you looking for healing in all the wrong places - Drugs? Alcohol? Inappropriate relationships?  You’ll never find true healing there, only a pseudo, temporary healing.  Christ came to earth with healing in His wings . . . Malachi 4:2!

We all want to stop being broken. The tale of humanity is the overcoming of suffering and brokenness. We will do anything to escape that. One problem, though, is that we often cope with the pain of brokenness without realizing that’s what we are doing. You may think, “I don’t do that.” But we all have tendencies to cope one way or another. Do you find yourself eating sugary snacks when you’re feeling down? Maybe you need a few beers or a glass of wine to “take the edge off?” Maybe your preference is to turn to porn. Or perhaps you distract with a series of romantic flings.

When it comes to behaviors like this, we need to pray for God to “Search me...and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! (Psalm 139:23-24)” Ask God to reveal to you what your behavior says about your heart, and pray that He would lead you to a better way. He is the only true cure for our brokenness. Anything else will only perpetuate our brokenness, even if it feels right in the moment. Dig in deep to God, and you will find that He begins to make you whole!