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"...AND VIOLATED TRUST AND I WONDER IF OUR GOD LIKES THAT OR IF HE REALLY IS SO JUST."

I AM HURT, MY HUSBAND LEFT ME AFTER I HAD CANCER, MARRIED A 16YRS YOUNGER WOMAN. HAS NO USE FOR OUR TWO SONS.  PLEASE HELP, IS GOD SO JUST? I PRAY FOR HIM EVERYDAY.

THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR DEVOTIONS. HELP ME PRAY FOR HIM, HE HAS NEVER BEEN SAVED.

We've looked at the questions about God's justice and your hurt.  But how do you actually walk in God's healing for you and your life?  I mentioned in the section about your hurt that God uses the pain of our circumstances to alert us that there is a problem and to train us how to walk in the truth.  Hebrews 12:12-13 says since this is the case --

... lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

This is what this section is about -- lifting up your hands and making straight paths for your feet so that you can be healed.  This is the balm and bandages, and even some physical therapy, for your brokenness.

I.     Establish a daily habit of spending time with God and make this an absolute priority. 

This is not a "to do" to add to your life!  This is about developing a real relationship, not just about checking off your Bible reading and prayer time each day.   You can talk to God just as simply as you would to your dearest friend standing in your kitchen.  You can say exactly what you think and feel -- he's not going to be shocked!  Look at the example of David.  David laid it all out there -- even his ugliest emotions.  And God recorded it in His Word for all of time.  This subject is addressed in more depth in the article, Your New Best Friend.  The article The Power of Making a Memorial would also be helpful. 

Simply start by asking the Holy Spirit to teach you.  Ask Him to do that every day.  He WILL.  And remember that God is a gentle healer.  He will lead you in tiny baby steps, day by day. 

Isaiah 28:9-13
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

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