Mending A Broken Heart

Greetings and Blessings!!

Happy Sunday Everyone! I hope you all are doing well and that everyone had a great and blessed weekend! I didn't attend church this morning but watched it online and the message was about mending a broken heart. I looked up the definition of broken from the Merriam-Webster definition states broken as, separated into parts or pieces by being hit, damaged, etc., not working properly, and not kept or honored. We all experience heartbreak of some kind in our lives. Heartbreak doesn't necessarily mean relational but it could mean financial, as well us breaking our own hearts by taking on something that we weren't supposed to do. Of course, no one wants to experience heartbreak of any kind but they do happen. The scripture for the sermon was taken from Psalm 55: 1-8, 12-14, 22 Job 24:12. There were three main key points and the first was knowing that broken hearts do happen. It is important for us to know that we are not exempt from getting our hearts broken. Just as we are meant to suffer for a little while, heartache and pain are meant to happen to us as well. But when we experience getting our heart broken we tend to question ourselves and our self-worth. We tend to question why would someone or something that we love so much would hurt us so bad. We start to think that something is wrong with us because you've given your all into something or someone and it turns around slaps you in the face because what you thought was good is not the case.

The second key point was being careful of what you allow in your heart while it's broken. This key point is so major because while we are hurting and saddened by our heart brokenness, it is important to be mindful of what we allow within our hearts. I've experienced heartbreak and it was not pleasant whatsoever. And it wasn't just a relationship heartbreak but a cultivation of things that I wasn't prepared to handle when things came to blow. It was something that I have never experienced in my life before and it was devastating to me as well. But while in my heart brokenness, it was important that I didn't allow things of negativity into my spirit. Such things as resentment, anger, vengeance, bitterness, etc. Now this wasn't an easy task to do by any means because when you are hurting and still getting kicked down when you are already down, you want the other person(s) to experience what you are experiencing but in a worse way than you are feeling. It is by God's grace and mercy that I am not what or who hurt me. Meaning that I haven't taken on those seeping feelings that I felt by what happened to me. It is so important for us to guard our hearts at all times! Proverbs 4:23 says, "Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life".

The last key point was be willing to take your hurts to the MENDER of BROKEN HEARTS! This point brought it all home. We have to be willing to take our broken pieces to him so that HE CAN FIX IT. We can't do the fixing ourselves but GOD CAN and HE WILL if you just take all that brokenness that you have stored up within yourself to him. He is the fixer and finisher of all things. He can fix and restore us to something new and better then before. No matter where the brokenness comes from, he will carry you through.

I enjoyed this message and wanted to share it with you all because it is so important that we don't become what hurt us. Heartbreak isn't something that no one wants to experience but it will happen. It is so easy to succumb to the feelings that one goes through when dealing with heartbreak, But I am a witness that with God by your side and in your life, you don't have to become what or who did you wrong. You have the choice to choose differently and become a new creation. What was meant to harm you he can turn it around for your good if you are willing to give him your hurts, disappointments, sadness, frustrations, anger, pain, etc. He will use what was meant to tear you down and birth something new within you! He's already there waiting for you to give it to him, you just have to take the first step in letting it go!

Be Blessed

Christina