God Can Restore All Things (Even Your Marriage)Sýnishorn

God Restores Brokenness

God giving His son as a demonstration of perfect love is part of His grand plan for restoring and redeeming all of creation. All throughout scripture, we see how God brings dead things to life and heals brokenness. He has the power to restore all things, including your marriage. Restoration is part of His nature. 

In the book of Genesis, we read about Joseph’s brothers selling him into slavery and how God restores that situation by eventually putting Joseph in a high-ranking government position. While Joseph faces various types of adversity, he also recognizes that God worked out a way to save his family in a time of famine. Joseph realizes that even though his brothers meant to do something evil, “God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today”(Genesis 50:20). In a beautiful demonstration of grace, Joseph not only forgives his brothers, but he saves their lives and invites them into his new home in Egypt. 

The New Testament is full of similar stories of restoration. When Jesus hears that Lazarus died, He goes to the grave and raises him to life (John 11:1-46). He also raises a widow’s son (Luke 7:11-17) and a man named Jairus’ daughter (Luke 8:49-56) from the dead. 

The best example of Christ’s work of restoration, though, is His own resurrection. Not only did he defeat physical death for himself, He also made a way for His people to once again be reconciled to Him. We can now pursue Him and have a relationship with Him, joining in on the mission to renew all things to His original design.

If God can bring restoration in all these places, He has the power to restore broken marriages, heal pain, and bring life where it seems impossible. While you read these stories of God’s restorative nature, rejoice in the reality that the same God works in your life too.