Completely

"He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds." Psalm 147:3

Let's define some words based on Strong's Concordance:

Healeth=7495. To mend, cure, repair, make whole.

Broken=7665. Crush, destroy, hurt, break down, in pieces.

Heart=3820. Feeling, will, intellect, the center of everything.

Bindeth=2280. To wrap firmly, compress.

Wounds=6094. Pain, sorrow.

This is one of my all-time favorite verses.  Once the words are defined, I read this verse as:

"He makes me whole from the broken pieces of my innermost self, and he compresses my pain and my sorrow."

I've felt crushed before, have you?  A cruel word, the loss of a loved one, discouragement.  Then I open God's Word to Psalm 147 and read verse 3.

God doesn't just put a band aid on my hurts; He completely restores what has been crushed, destroyed, hurt and broken down.

When I read, "and bindeth up their wounds," I think of God stopping my bleeding.

That's what a broken heart feels like sometimes; like you are bleeding from the heart. But God stops that bleeding and restores FULLY.

He can do that because He knows what a broken heart feels like. He knows what it's like to be hated, ignored, rejected and cursed.  My God, the Great Physician, the Greatest of all Comforters, heals all of my hurts. 

Only He can relate to my brokenness...

    and Only He can restore me completely...

        But that's just me!

"Hearts are broken through disappointment. Hearts are broken through bereavement. Hearts are broken in ten thousand ways, for this is a heart-breaking world; and Christ is good at healing all manner of heartbreaks." Charles Spurgeon