Condition: Broken Bones

Psalm 34:17-20 ends with a promise that the righteous keeps all his bones, and that not one of them is broken.  If one of your bones is broken, you have the right to receive healing for your broken bone!  Speak in agreement with God’s Word: “Not one of my bones is broken!” and expect your body to come into submission to the Word.  Remember – conditions are temporary and subject to change, but God’s Word is eternal and it is not subject to change.  God’s Word, which is permanent, changes situations such as broken bones, which are temporary.

In Leviticus 21:16-23, a man with a broken foot or a broken hand was not permitted to approach God’s holy altar.  This shows God’s disapproval of such conditions and that He wants those who serve Him to be whole in their bones.  It does not mean that you are a moral failure because you have a broken bone!  It does mean that God does not want such conditions in His holy temple, and you are His temple under the New Covenant (2 Corinthians 6:16).  (Don't worry; you can approach God as anyone else can; the blood of Jesus takes care of that under the New Covenant.)

Psalm 31:10 and Psalm 38:3 say that the psalmist’s bones were consumed and had no rest because of sin:

Psalm 31:10:
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Psalm 38:3:
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

Jesus appeased God’s anger for you over your sin, so your bones should not be “consumed” or “without rest.”  The person who is right before God (as you are) should be able to say that his bones are “fat” instead of fragile:

Isaiah 58:11:
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

Job considered a broken bone to be judgement that a wicked person deserves:

Job 31:21-22:
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

Believers are righteous and do not deserve punishment because Jesus was punished in their place.

Here is what God promised in Ezekiel:

Ezekiel 34:16:
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

You have every right to believe that God will bind up what’s broken and strengthen what’s sick!

Job himself suffered unspecified bone trouble (Job 30:17).  We know that everything Job suffered was from the devil, not God.  Under the New Covenant, you have authority over the devil, which Job never had.  If the devil tries to give you bone trouble, you can run him off, because Jesus was manifested to DESTROY the works of the devil (1 John 3:8), including bone trouble.

Proverbs 17:22 tells us that a broken spirit dries up the bones.  So issues you’re not dealing with properly could literally be bad for your bones.  But having a merry heart will do you good like medicine!

Proverbs 15:30 tells us that a good report makes bones fat (healthy).  God’s Word is all a good report, so it can make your bones healthy!

Finally, walking in the fear of the Lord is good for your bones (Proverbs 3:7-8).