Skip to main content

The Brokenhearted

                         He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.  (Psalm 147:3)

Broken hearts can heal. I know that it’s unempathetic of me to even suggest that healing is possible, but according to Scripture, God heals the brokenhearted. Scripture does not tell us what method He’ll use or how long it will take. I suspect that we can not even remember the heartbreak while God is still working on it. Other times, we may be going about our day and suddenly realize that we’re not in pain anymore. We might even feel guilty for not being in pain.

Speaking of guilt, I must mention that feeling guilty for not feeling heartbroken is no more noble than feeling the pain of heartbreak. Just as there isn’t nobility in feeling or not feeling the pain of a sprained ankle or a broken arm, there is no nobility in feeling heart pain. It does not prove your love for someone who is gone or show you to be superior for continuing to ache over someone’s callousness. There is no great virtue in not allowing God to heal our heartbreaks, but neither is there virtue in pretending the pain isn’t there. Who we are may grow out of the pain we’ve endured, but our identity is not in the pain. It is not us, and we are not it. Our universe naturally shrinks to the size and shape of the pain and its cause. But it is not healthy to build our home upon it.

This doesn’t mean we should treat people who are in pain – or people who aren’t in pain – badly. We should pray for their healing and treat them with love, kindness, and gentleness. But the point is that God does heal heartbreak. Since it is God’s goal, it should also be ours, and we should thank Him for it, even in advance.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The List

              Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,   through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;   perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. (Romans 5:1-5)           Think about it. We have been justified. At least, we could be justified if we stopped insisting that our justification be based on our merits. We have peace with God, or could have peace if we stopped throwing temper tantrums. We have gained access into grace i...
Post a Comment
Read more

Meditations of the Heart

  May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm19:14)           As I started writing this post, I noted that the meditations of my heart are all over the mental landscape, from a hub where eight superhighways come together to a lunar or nuclear landscape. Do you see my error? The moment I read the word meditation , I think about thoughts. But what’s described here is the meditations of our hearts ; our wills.           While the meditations of our minds may be all over the place, the meditations of our wills tend to be a little more stable by the time we are adults. We no longer tend to want to pursue the ten separate careers we did in any given day as children. Part of this is humble acceptance of reality. We come to understand that we can’t do it all. I think another part of it is disappointmen...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Way, The Truth, and The Life

              Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me . (John 14:6)           If “I am the gate of the sheep…I am the good shepherd” from chapter 10 is a double whammy, this verse is a triple whammy. And its first victim is the notion that any other so-called god was acceptable or the same as Jesus. He, and He alone is the way, the truth, and the life, and the only way to get to the Father. There is no other Savior, or Redeemer, according to Jesus. Now, to be fair, other religions will claim that their religion or god(s) are the only way. That is the nature of gods and of religions. If this and that are equally good and agree on what’s necessary, then this and that are the same thing, so there’s no need to from the other to one. If that’s the case, then why speak against the other or promote the one? There’s a song I’ve been listening to i...
Post a Comment
Read more