God of Healing

We have seen by now that God shakes the earth; the very foundations of it tremble at His voice. And of course, if you happen to live along a fault line or have passed third grade science, you know that when the earth trembles, it also cracks. 

Have you ever been cracked? 

I tell you, there have been times in my life when my whole world was shaken so hard that I have felt like I was falling apart. Falling absolutely apart, into a million little pieces. One little piece of me falls over here, another little piece over there, until the gaps in my being are so big and so wide that it feels like all the king's horses and all the king's men will never be able to put me back together again. 

But God can. 

In Psalm 60, the psalmist is having one of these moments. The whole earth has shaken, he feels disrupted, everything is splitting wide open, and it seems like it took nothing at all for God to make this all happen. He knows the Lord is the only one with this kind of power. 

But he also knows that the Lord is the only one with the power to fix it. 

So he cries out - You have made the earth shake; You have cracked it open effortlessly. Heal the fissures in the earth, for it is unsteady. 

In other words, only Your power does this, Lord. Only You are so strong and awe-inspiring. Only for You does the earth tremble this way. Only because of the way You move does everything feel like it's falling apart. But only You can put it back together. 

And, Lord, we need You to put it back together because everything was shaken and now, it feels a little shaky. It's unsteady. It feels like any second, whatever is left standing on whatever feeble legs we have is going to come crashing down, too. 

Heal the fissures, Lord. Like only You can. 

Do you feel this? Have you felt this? Are you feeling this right now? 

If your world is shaken, if you're falling apart, if little pieces seem to be hitting the ground all around you and everything feels unsteady, cry out to the One who shakes the earth. For He shakes it, yes, but He also heals it. He heals its fissures and puts things back together. 

Including you.

Cry out to Him.