When someone is broken, don’t try to fix them. When someone is broken, our natural tendency is to help fix the person based on our methods. We can’t. Our methods are restricted to our limited experience and understanding. Instead, introduce them to the One who created them originally, the One who weaved them in their mother’s womb, the One who had seen their unformed body, the One who shaped their inner being. He can.

When someone is hurting, don’t attempt to take away their pain. We can’t. We are not perfect and without weaknesses. Instead, introduce them to the Cross, the perfect place of exchange. A place where sin ended and forgiveness was released. And as they release their pain to the Cross, they will receive comfort in exchange, they will receive beauty for ashes, oil of joy for mourning, garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. He can.

Share with them the love of God. God’s love is unconditional, universal, eternal, limitless.

Sometimes what people need is simply to know they are not alone. Can we walk beside them all the time? We can’t. Introduce them to the One who will never leave them nor forsake them, even when they walk through the valley of shadow of death, He will be with them, to guide them and comfort them and restore their soul. The One who will be with them when they pass through the rivers, the water will not overflow them, when they walk through the fire, they shall not be burned nor shall the flame scorch them for He is their Saviour. He laid His life and took their shame, their guilt, their pain upon Himself, paid it in full and said “It is finished.”

The broken, the hurting, the lonely will find solace, meaning and purpose in the love and the fellowship of Jesus Christ, the living God.