Seek to Be a Man Who Repairs What Others Spiritually Break
When you and I decide to trace Scripture from Torah to the Prophets to Yeshua, we will discover that GOD’s stance He takes towards all people is consistent, but His direct viewpoint toward the widow, the orphan, the priest, and the stranger is uniquely intensified. However, it remains true to His character and aim.
The Mighty One of Israel is the Restorer of breaches, as seen in Isaiah 58, and He Commands us to be the same. …someone who steps into the gap others create and subsequently rebuild trust, dignity, and belonging. THIS is whom we are designed and expected to be/become.
Just as the archetype of Boaz, The Mighty One of Israel is the Kinsman‑Redeemer in the legal type. However, we are expected to fill THAT same role for others… not in the legal sense, but in the relational sense.
The LORD wants us to be the men who says, “I will not let THIS story end in ruin.”
The Mighty One of Israel is THE Spiritual Craftsman. Like His fashioning of Bezalel, who could take raw, damaged, or ordinary material and shape it into something that hosts GOD’s Presence. The Creator has the same desire for each of us.
The Mighty One of Israel is so balanced and diversified, that He is THE Healer of unseen fractures—which are usually the breaks no one else sees, the wounds people hide, the distortions that come from betrayal, neglect, or spiritual misuse.
Guess what…
The Mighty One of Israel’s Son is the Man Who refused to let brokenness have the final word. He was/is the Epitome of the Covenant language His Father spoke at the mountain, and throughout the first 39 Books. The remaining Books of the Bible continues the storied depiction of what GOD said numerous years prior. That’s not only Eden’s language, but the foretold resurrection language.
Are you able to see it?!
When you and I decide to trace Scripture from Torah to the Prophets to Yeshua, we will discover that GOD’s stance He takes towards all people is consistent, but His direct viewpoint toward the widow, the orphan, the priest, and the stranger is uniquely intensified. However, it remains true to His character and aim.
If we are willing to be men who repairs what others spiritually break, the Spirit of Truth can use that man.
You DO KNOW THAT is an identity statement? That identity is directly connected to a Hebraic mind, because in Scripture the people who repair what is broken are given a very specific name.
Look what I found:
“Gômel chasadim” — one who does covenant‑acts of restoration
“Bôneh haneherasot” — one who rebuilds what has been torn down
“Maqîm qerovim” — one who raises up the fallen
“M’shiv nefesh” — one who brings a soul back to life
NOTE: That is a mouthful said in four statements; and I desire to BE one of those men!
NOTE: If we are to become and be men who repairs what others spiritually break, it will come with a cost and much effort. It is CERTAINLY NOT living the status of the usual religious identity.
While on vacation in Milwaukee, WI, a few years back, my wife and I visited an unsuspecting surprise in a museum of Judean history. I have HOARDS of pictures and BOY; did I learn A LOT! The word learned that has stuck with me is tikkun — repair, restoration, mending what has been torn. The phrase we learned while there was what Israel as a whole was/is destined to do and be. That phrase is, Tikkun Olam— “heal the world.”
A man who practices tikkun is not a passive comforter. He is a builder, a guardian, a midwife of renewal, a shepherd of fractured souls, and a witness to GOD’s healing Existence. Cool, huh?
Here is the KICKER… In the effort to repair what others spiritually break, you and I must get some things from the LORD. Sure, they come with the Ruach HaChodesh, but we fellas often lack the desire and will to want to understand Him in a more complete way, so we remain in out infancy state and get stuck in the mire of denominational thought and approaches—instead of walking further and investing out of willing compulsion.
Over the many years I have attempted to seek the Lord of Creation, I have been guilty of the following… Even more disconcerting, I have witnessed many more men who still walk in the shadows of the men they have placed in front of them and chosen to listen to them over and above the Spirit of the Holy One of Israel. What is the outcome and fallout of that is nothing short of sadness…
Maybe you are one of those men who lack the discernment to see the fracture
Maybe you are one of those men who lack the compassion to sit with the wounded
Maybe you are one of those men who lack the courage to confront the source
Maybe you are one of those men who lack the wisdom to rebuild without controlling
Maybe you are one of those men who lack the humility to know you’re not the Healer, but the hands He uses
Maybe you are one of those men who lack the purity of motive, so you don’t become what you’re trying to mend
This is why such men are rare. This is why such men are needed. This is why such men are dangerous to darkness. They are needed in the void and emptiness. That is the work of a man who partners with Almighty GOD in the restoration of souls.
Biblically, a “repairer of the breach” is someone who restores what has been broken—whether in relationships, communities, or the spiritual “walls” that protect the heart from harm.
Will you be one of THOSE men?
This is probably why GOD said, “He looked for a man to stand in the gap…” He does not want someone with skill, but someone willing to obey His will.