Is the world speeding past the hurt that you carry inside? Everybody's in a hurry to get where they're going. Meanwhile, you suffer with that brokenness inside you in a world that doesn't know, or just doesn't care.
One day at the barn, in one moment of carelessness, a man allowed himself to get in what horse lovers know as the "kill zone," which is that area behind a horse where they can kick you with those potentially deadly hooves. In one life-changing moment, he was kicked in the leg and it shattered his bones. Even though he was in excruciating pain, he managed to drag himself to the highway near his house where he pulled himself up and began waving for help. Car after car just drove right on past this seriously injured man - even his friends and neighbors. They didn't know he was hurting. They thought he was just waving "Hi!" He was a broken man and no one knew his need. No one stopped for him.
That could be part of the story of your life. There's someone who does know your need. There's someone who does care. He's been broken too - more broken than any of us could possibly be. He's the One the Bible calls the "man of sorrows" - Jesus Christ. You can trust Him because, as the Bible says, He was "familiar with suffering...He was despised...He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows" (Isaiah 53:3-4). This is the man who told His followers to remember the sacrifice He was about to make for them on the cross with bread that was broken - a symbol of what would happen to the body of the Son of God.
Jesus understands broken. When He was here, He always stopped for the hurting people that everyone else just drove on by. In Isaiah 61:1, He announces what He wants to do for you. He said, "The Lord has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners."
He came to do much more than just relieve your pain. He came here to deal with the human "cancer" that causes your pain. Your brokenness is ultimately the result of a broken relationship with the very Creator who gave you your life and planned your life to have a cosmic purpose, but maybe you thought you could run it better. Instead of having God at the center of your life, have you pushed Him to the margins, trying to placate Him by being religious?
Sin is very serious business. It separates us from God and His love, and it brings us under the eternal judgment of the God we were made to live for. God really loves you. He loved you enough to sacrifice the most precious thing He had to heal your broken relationship with Him. He allowed the body of His only Son to be broken on the cross for you as He died your death penalty for your sin.
Jesus wants to fix what's broken between you and God so He can forgive you, enter your life, and fix what sin has broken inside you. The problem hasn't been that He wouldn't stop for you. You haven't stopped for Him. He's been waiting for you to open up to His love for a long time. One more time, He's giving you the chance to experience His healing and forgiving touch, but you have to open the door.
That opening of your life to this Savior who was broken for you is the beginning of your spiritual healing. Jesus, the only Son God had, was broken so you don't have to be. Let Him into the life that He died for and let the healing begin.