Devotional for the week – Sunday, August 7, 2022
DISCOURAGEMENT
Is there anything more frail than a bruised reed? Look at the bruised reed at the water’s edge. A once slender and tall stalk of sturdy river grass, it is now bowed and bent.
Are you a bruised reed? Was it so long ago that you stood so tall, so proud?
Then something happened. You were bruised…
by harsh words
by a friend’s anger
by a spouse’s betrayal
by your own failure
by religion’s rigidity.
Painted on canvas after canvas is the tender touch of a Creator who has a special place for the bruised and weary of the world.
From God’s Inspirational Promises
By Max Lucado