1131) When I was a kid, we had a trash compactor. This is a fascinating invention for 10- and 11-year-olds. You put the trash in it, close the drawer and push the button. Before you know it, the crushing mechanism put incredible pressure on the drawer’s contents and forces them into a compact mass. This machine was especially interesting when we put a glass jar in it. To hear the pressure breaking the glass was thrilling.

Unfortunately, when life’s difficult circumstances press down on us, there is nothing thrilling about it. Some have been so crushed; survival is doubtful and the will to live was given up.

What’s more difficult is sometimes we mistake the fact that because God allows these crushing things to happen to us, means He does not care about our broken hearts.

David felt this way many times and his life is a testimony that God does care deeply about our suffering and even weeps over it. He saves those crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18, John 11:35