HEALING BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS

Ronald Bainbridge
Feb 25, 2024
4 min read

Updated: Dec 24, 2025

Friends, the purpose of A BETTER LIFE MINISTRIES is to provide men and women with words of Encouragement and Hope, as well as empower believers in Jesus Christ around the world, to recognise, experience, and celebrate their oneness with all others who know Jesus as Saviour and Lord, regardless of denomination, church fellowship, or historic tradition.

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Today's Message of Encouragement

HEALING

BROKEN

RELATIONSHIPS!

Becoming More Like Jesus

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Friend, I think we would all agree that good relationships are the ideal. However, we all learn very quickly that people are not always perfect. Each of us has experienced the tension of strained relationships, and we know the heartbreak of broken relationships.

The poet pens an accurate insight into human nature with the following statement:

“Here lies the tragedy of our race, not that men are poor, but all men

Know something of poverty.

Not that men are wicked, who can claim to be good?

Not even that men are ignorant, who can boast that he is wise?”

But that men are strangers!”

Friend, it is terrible when in our relations with others we become like ships passing each other in the night. There is just the vague, ghostly outline to be seen, but no clear focus. However, life teaches us that whenever we fail in human relationships, we are not failing at the fringe of things, but at the heart. We are failing as human beings.

When relationships are strained or shattered, we are left with only two alternatives – reconciliation or a lifetime of regret. We all experience loneliness when we build walls instead of bridges. In his song, “I Am a Rock,” Paul Simon expresses all the anguish, bitterness and loneliness which is ours when relationships turn sour.

“Don’t talk of love.

I’ve heard the word before

It’s sleeping in my memory

And I won’t disturb the slumber

Of feelings that I have died!

If I never loved

I never would have cried

I am a rock, I am an Island

I touch no one, and no one touches me

I am a rock, I am an Island

And a rock can feel no pain.

And an island never cries.”

Friend, the hurt and cynicism of that attitude is tragic. God did not create us to be rocks, but persons with feelings. We are not meant to be isolated islands surrounded by seas of misunderstanding with no bridges across the imprisoning straits of heartache. John Donne had an accurate insight into human nature when he declared, “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main . . . "

LET GO, LET GOD

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Friend, none of us can be human alone. Each of us needs to be closely related to God and to enjoy meaningful, fulfilling relationships with others. Jesus emphasised these as the two most important issues of life (Matthew 22:37-39).

In reality, all healthy, life-giving relationships are based on Forgiveness, Deliverance and Guidance. We are created for acceptance and a sense of belonging, and it is only when we take the initiative to reach out our hand to others that we discover the truth that life is all about relationships.

“In the end the love we take

Is equal to the love we make.”

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“Forgiveness does not change the past,

But it does enlarge the future.”

(Paul Boese)

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