09/08/2026
“He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.” (Psalm 34:20)
Could it be true that righteous people never suffer a broken bone? No, believers suffer many physical calamities, as is stated in the preceding Scripture: “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.” (Psalm 34:19)
To what then, does this promise point? First and foremost, it is a direct allusion to our Lord Jesus Christ, who came as our Passover Lamb. In Exodus 12:46, we glean that the people of God were never to break the bones of the lamb to be sacrificed at Passover. Each one of those lambs foreshadowed Jesus – the Lamb of God – who takes away the sin of the world. (1 John 1:29) Accordingly, not one of Jesus’ bones was broken when He was crucified for our sin. (John 19:33-36)
Secondly, the promise of our bones being “kept” and not broken is a general promise of God’s loving care for each detail of life. Bones, representing our bodily structure and strength, stand for the fact that God will always give us what is needed in the deepest sense. He protects us; we are never fractured in a final sense, whether spiritually, emotionally, or bodily. Why? Because our Savior took in His body every hit for our destructive sinfulness. As Scripture prophesied the keeping of His bones, so too, will ours be kept through Jesus.
The same bones of Christ that remained whole despite His profound suffering, comprise the very framework that rose from the grave! His disciples hugged that body after the resurrection, and one day we will embrace our Savior, holding to the same skeletal structure that the Father preserved and glorified for the Son!
Just as our Lord promised that not one hair of our head will ultimately be lost (Luke 21:18), so we may count on an unbroken, glorified body in that new world to come. For now, our God carefully watches over and protects His own through every affliction. And because of Christ Jesus, every part of us – even the molecules of our physical framework – shall be perfect and unbroken.
- Shelli Prindle
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