Serving With Wounds

“Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings.”

Psalm 17:8

When I watch heartbroken, suffering Christians selflessly keep serving and comforting others, they remind me of these words by Scott Hubbard*: “Having entrusted their fragile souls to the safekeeping of a faithful Creator, [those who suffer] find the courage to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives, hand them [over] to Jesus, and trust he is still able to take what is broken and use it to nourish [others].

They may speak comfort with a tremble in their voice, or reach out…with scarred hands, or serve with wounds that cannot be seen and cannot be fully healed in this life. But they still speak, [they] still reach, [and they] still serve, bringing the treasure of God to others in a jar of clay. Why? Because the Creator of the stars keeps them as the apple of his eye…and with him they are safe.” Good words for every Christian today.

*Scott Hubbard, “The Maker of the Mountains is With You,” Desiring God