Do You Remember that line from Jerry Maguire?
There was a famous romantic line from the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire that the world became obsessed with. That line was, “You complete me.” Couples have been saying that to each other ever since. It truly is romantic, but it is also completely untrue. As a newlywed, I can attest that my husband has brought happiness into my life that I never experienced before. However, we both have realized that there are issues that we both brought into this marriage that have nothing to do with each other, that cannot be healed simply because we love each other. Our issues can only be healed by God. Let me say it like this, we have too many Humpty Dumpty Christians in the Body of Christ! What does that mean? We walk around broken! We have missing pieces because of childhood trauma, abusive relationships, church hurt, disappointment, loneliness and unfulfilled dreams. And just like all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again, all the conferences, church services, self-help books, prosperity preaching and romantic relationships cannot put us back together again when we are broken!
The Most Important Relationship
The most important relationship in our lives, and the ONLY relationship that can heal us and put back all our broken pieces is our relationship with Jesus Christ. He knows us as no one else can know us. We cannot rely on any person to fix what is broken in us. Too many times we believe that a husband or a wife can love away our pain. It’s a romantic notion, but it usually ends up in disappointment as our issues continue to persist no matter how loving our partners are. And if we do not allow our Heavenly Father to heal us, then unfortunately, we make the ones we love pay for what others have done to us.
God created us. He knows us. He understands how we’ve been broken, where we are broken, and He alone knows how to fix us. As my mother would say, “He specializes!” He is not just a general practitioner, but He is a specialist! Whatever our issue is, we need to take it to the Lord. My prayer for all of us is that we will be honest with ourselves and with our Creator. We need to cry out to Him, as a little child to a Father. He already knows all our deepest pain, but He desires for us to admit that we need to be healed. My prayer for all of us that after our next healing encounter with the Lord, He will say to us, just as He said to the woman with the issue of blood, “thy faith hath made thee whole” (Mark 5:34, KJV).
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