The Bone That Breaks and Grows Back Stronger

Orthopedic surgeons have long observed a remarkable phenomenon known as Wolff's Law, first described by German anatomist Julius Wolff in 1892. When a bone fractures and heals, the site of the break often becomes denser and stronger than the surrounding bone. The body floods the fracture with calcium and collagen, building up the damaged area until it can bear even greater loads than before. The very place that shattered becomes the strongest place in your skeleton.

Think about that for a moment. God did not design your bones to merely return to what they were. He designed them to exceed what they were — but only after they break.

Courage is not the absence of breaking. Courage is trusting that the God who knit your bones together in your mother's womb is also the God who rebuilds what shatters. The Psalmist understood this when he wrote, "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds" (Psalm 147:3). The Hebrew word for "binds up" carries the sense of wrapping tightly, reinforcing, making whole in a way that surpasses the original.

Some of you are sitting in the fracture right now. You feel the crack running through your marriage, your finances, your faith. But El Roi, the God Who Sees, is already flooding that broken place with something stronger than what was there before.

The bravest thing you will ever do is let Him heal you.