Mend

At Valley Chapel our mission is to Reach people for Christ, Teach a Christ-centered life, Mend broken lives, and Send our people into the world.

Over the next few weeks we are locking onto our mission to Mend broken lives. To do so we'll be looking at the Bible's hymn book - the Psalms.

Martin Luther said, "If you wish to see the holy Christian church depicted in living colours, and given a living form, in a painting in miniature, then place the Book of Psalms in front of you; you will have a beautiful, bright, polished mirror which will show you what Christianity is." 

In the Psalms we come face to face with human brokenness because we look in that mirror and see ourselves. But in the Psalms we also come face to face with humanity's healer. The one who Mends our brokenness. 
The One who hears confessions and forgives our sins. 
The One who shepherds us through the valley of the shadow of death.
The One who hears our laments in times of trouble, and stands ready to save.
The One who lifts us from the pit and puts a new song of praise on our tongues.

The world would prefer not to know about our brokenness. It's awkward. But in the Psalms we have an honest and strange double mirror. On the one hand it reflects the unflattering truth of who we are. On the other hand it projects the hopeful image of what God is making us.