HEALING A FRAGMENTED HEART
Brother James, OIC
Ps 34:18
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Your heart has been broken! Maybe by loss of a loved one to eternity, a divorce or a break-up, or perceived failures according to the worlds standards resulting in loss of your career, your job, etc. The GOOD NEWS is that God is in the HEART HEALING business. And YOUR HEALING can begin today!
King David's heart was broken and at first he looked in the wrong directions for healing.
Ps 69:20
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
The spiritual adversary wants to use your broken heart to misdirect you, get you self absorbed, looking backwards to the past and not forward in Christ. But God wants to heal you.
Ps 147:3
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
From an early age I was misdirected toward things I thought would make me happy. I thought I would be happy and content IF ONLY I COULD...switch to this mate, achieve this goal, get this high, experience this thrill, own this possession, travel there , do this, do that...the list is endless as is the cycle of defeat it fuels. There was no real security in the things the world holds so dear. The god of this world; satan had done a good job misdirecting my heart. And after I became a Christian satan simply increased the subtlety of his misdirection's thus I found myself as a Christian still bound and hurting, still reaching for things that were not Gods Will for me. I had to learn right choices in Christ and this obedience was actually produced through the suffering satan had caused me.
Not everything that satan uses against us can initially be avoided by right choices. For example; loss of a loved one through divorce, separation or death causes suffering. Time to mourn is needed for healing to begin. I myself lost my two youngest sons Joshua 12 and Nicolas 11 in a car wreck March 7th 2009. When I was told about it I felt I couldn't make it, so much had the devil robbed from me in this life, but this by far was the single most biggest hurt my heart had ever known...BUT GOD to Whom all things belong would end up using that to teach me and make me understand and that through that I would partake in Christ's Sufferings so my heart would become more like His. Therefore what satan meant for evil God wants to turn and use for our good and moreso for the good of others.
Heb 5:8
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
We must make up our minds that self pity doesn't become a lifestyle that the world, its toys and its people doesn't become a god to us.
Ho 10:2
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
As we turn back to God in times of suffering, in prayer, worship and study of His Word lets do so with a Whole Heart and trust the promise that God will heal us.
Jer 24:7
And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
In Christs Love And Service
Brother James, OIC
