One of the most beautiful things about our Heavenly Father is that not only does He see you, knowing all that is in your mind and heart and circumstance; and not only does He love you with a sacrificial, everlasting, immeasurable love; He is a God of intimacy, deeply involved in the lives of His children.

God does not watch us from afar and love from a distance. He is a devoted Father, treasuring time with us. Wanting to commune with us through our good and bad days. And not just able, but desiring to heal our wounds and fill up all of our empty, broken places. 

He doesn’t bring partial healing. His healing is complete. And He doesn’t fill those vacuums where we have experienced broken relationships and desperate times with quick, unstable fixes that we might unwisely ask for and choose. 

He comes into our very hearts, through the power and presence of the Holy Spirit and fills up those longings and empty spaces with Himself. Eternal healing. Forever fixes. Strengthening us when we’re crushed. Comforting us in our mourning. Guiding when we are lost and uncertain.

There are situations in our lives that can leave great vacuums in our souls. Empty places that echo with our pain and hurt. Places that if we are not careful, will be filled with all the wrong things. Addictions. Anger. Bitterness. Despondency.

We look in all the wrong places for something to fill the void. Relationships. Alcohol. Food. Activity. Success. We circle around in our inept attempts to bring healing to ourselves and fill those vacuums. And end up at best with a thin outer veneer that implies “real, put together, strong” until more trials come. Or at worst, more broken than we were before.

We need to turn to God the Father for complete, pure, joy-filled healing. He doesn’t use some obstacle or flawed human technique, nor count on us to get it right and fix it ourselves. He moves in. He fills that empty, broken hollow in our soul. With Himself. Through the Person of the Holy Spirit, He begins an eternal, joyous, peaceful, complete healing. To the darkness He brings light. To the sorrowful He brings comfort. To the angry, He brings justice. To the emptiness he brings fullness. To the lonely He brings “I will never leave you nor forsake you” presence and friendship.

It may not look like what we had imagined. It may not feel like what we thought we were longing for. And we won’t care. Because it’s better. Richer. Fulfilling. Peaceful. Complete. 

Isaiah 61:1 “He has sent me (Jesus) to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners…to comfort all who mourn.”

Psalm 147:3 “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”

Isaiah 30:18 “The Lord longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!”

I John 3:24 “…and he lives in us. And this is how we experience his deep and abiding presence in us: by the Spirit he gave us.