A Broken Spirit

"The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness, but who can bear a broken spirit?" - Proverbs 18:14

I believe a broken spirit is what leads to a lot of mental illness. It could be from trauma, loss and grief, or similar things. Here it says a spirit can sustain, like in a cancer patient who keeps on fighting. But what sustains when the spirit itself is broken?

I believe that is when we have to turn to God and sustenance will come through Him. We do not have to fall into destruction or sit and wallow in the pit our broken spirit put us in.

Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. He is the way to a victorious life. He is the truth that combats the lies that the enemy constantly feeds us. He is the life--He can save your life in more ways than one. He can give you hope for the future.

So if your spirit is broken, seek help because you need outside help to sustain you. Seek counsel, seek a support group, seek medicine or whatever you can that will help. But most of all, seek the God who cares for you and wants to be your ultimate sustenance through it all.