MENDED
Today's reading: Psalm 30-32

"O Lord my God, I cried out to you for help, and you restored my health." Psalm 30:2 NLT

Rapiendi and carpendi or 'seizing' and 'plucking', are the words used to describe the healing, or health, mentioned in this passage of Scripture.

The two Hebrew words describe the act of sewing together or mending. Seizing a part from one place and plucking a part from another, attaching it and making a piece whole.

When it comes to being mended, isn't that just what God does?

He takes the parts of us that are broken, ill, sin-stained, terminal and attaches them to Him--His wholeness, His perfection, His entirety.

Sometimes that involves physical health, sometimes it does not.

In some instances cancer cells remain but His peace mends the heart and mind. Or physical pain continues but His strength allows life to continue. Or empty wounds remain gaping sores soothed by His balm of love. Sins punishable by death and putrid with decay are cleansed wholly and completely by His blood.

He mends our broken parts together in His love, for His purposes, in His time.

We are all patchwork quilts of His grace!