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Healing For The Wounded Heart
He healeth
the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. Psalm 147:3
Creating a
Broken Heart
The broken
heart is created in one of two ways:
Naturally
Desertion
- By a spouse
- By family
- By a friend
Bereavement
- The wound of depth upon the living.
Disappointment
- Hope damaged or destroyed.
The cure may
be natural or spiritual.
The merriment may come from either natural
or spiritual means.
- Natural cure serves only the immediate wound.
- Spiritual cure may be drawn upon for all wounds.
Spiritually
The heart
broken by sin
- Not known by the unrepentant.
Those who enjoy sin find no heartbreak
in their practice of sin.
- Not known by the self-righteous.
God cannot scratch the diamond-hard
heart of the self-righteous.
Ezekiel
6:9
Only those
who hate their sin may be heartbroken by it.
- This heart is sorry for sin.
- This heart knows it is entirely unable to rid itself of
sin.
- The result of this wound of the heart is salvation.
Psalm 34:18
Jeremiah
8:22
Natural means
can lead to spiritual healing.
- Broken to grow.
- Broken to serve.
Psalm 51:1-13
- God will use the natural brokenness of man to affect a
spiritual healing.
Wounds Which
go Unhealed
These wounds
are glossed over by some pretended good.
Many are
brought close to spiritual health by the course of life, but they are offered:
- Salvation without faith in Christ
- Forgetfulness instead of reflection
- Holiness without confession
- Maturity without growth
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