Heal My Broken Heart

It’s the worst pain in the world. There is nothing to compare to it. No doctor can cure it, not even your spouse or family member. It is an unassuming ache that no medicine can take away its lingering pain. You look into the mirror hoping that it’s not there, praying that no one can see it. It isn’t anything you can feel or touch but you can certainly see it, especially in the eyes of the ones that you love and you can also identify it in your own eyes once you look into the mirror of your souls or a natural mirror: a broken heart.

Almost everyone has experienced a broken heart. There are many techniques and medications that take much credit for the cure of a broken heart but they are not effective. The evidence is in the eyes or the posture of your statue. You can try to masquerade with much cover up, or an outgoing or zany personality, overeating, overworking, shopping sprees, intense work out sessions, and in the worst case substance abuse which can be fatal. A broken heart comes from a great disappointment and an unrealistic view of a subject or a matter that was created in your mind to your own satisfaction. We all have our goals and dreams in life. It can begin so early in your life, even the tender years of your growing pains.

Little Laura set her heart on this beautiful doll. She was 9 years of age. Oh, how she wanted this doll! Every time Laura and her mother walked into town she would see this doll in the window. As she stared at the doll, and pointed to it, and said, ”Oh mother, may I have her for Christmas? This doll is so beautiful. Oh, please, mother, may I have her for my Christmas present?!” Little Laura’s mother knew that the doll was quite expensive, so she said, “yes, dear”, not wanting to disappoint her. As they walked away, little Laura skipped all the way home. She was delighted in her heart, and her expectations were elevated beyond her control. Every day little Laura would daydream about the beautiful doll in the store window. Little Laura’s mother never thought twice about it until Christmas day.

Early that morning, little Laura ran down the stairs, dashing through her home to the Christmas tree and her parents followed with great joy of the excitement of little Laura’s Christmas. Little Laura opened every gift that was hers and the doll that she wanted wasn’t under the tree. There were other dolls there, but not the doll that she saw in the store window. Little Laura immediately looked at her mother and said, “Mother, what happened to the doll I saw in the store window?” Her mother had a blank look of astonishment on her face. Little Laura’s mother didn’t think she’d remember that doll in the store window. It was many months before. Little Laura’s mother simply forgot, but little Laura didn’t. Little Laura’s mother told her that she was sorry and that Santa Claus did not bring her the doll that she wanted this Christmas. Santa Claus is most often the escape goat for parents not buying certain toys. Little Laura cried and her mother embraced her and said, “maybe next year, if you are good, Santa will bring the gift you want.” This was little Laura’s first heartbreak: a broken heart.

This was something that Laura had imagined in her heart. Although her mother had told her yes, many things can distract or interfere with life plans, leaving us with great disappointment. Disappointment can cause great pain and sorrow of the heart as well as rejection. Both of these emotions are the results of a broken heart, or a broken spirit.

Little Laura grew up into a beautiful young, Christian lady, vowing one day, when she had children, preferably a little girl, that she would buy her the most beautiful doll that a mother could ever buy. You see this childhood experience left Laura crippled with insecurities and a broken heart and a broken spirit from her childhood disappointment. It is quite sad but a riveting fact that most of us live in every day. A loss of employment or a family member or loved one, a break up or divorce, a loss of a close friendship or children, rejection over and over for business or personal loans, rejection from friends, peers and colleagues; all of these situations are disappointments and rejections that come every day to all of us.

Learning how to cope with disappointment and rejection can be difficult. Yes, of course, talking to counselors can help you. Talking always helps, especially to professionals. Nevertheless, they can not heal a broken heart. There is only one man in this world that can do that and the man’s name is Jesus Christ. Jesus is the only one that can heal a broken heart. We must give our brokenness to him. This can be electrifying (powerful) to our minds once we grasp that our heavenly Father God has ordained (appointed) all of this from our youth: Yes beloved, even our broken hearts and spirits.

You see, it is when we are broken and hurting, rejected, despised, looked down upon, ridiculed, is when we turn to the one who would not hurt or walk away from us. This is the time when we are the most isolated and deprecated to the point of no return. Then, we must turn to our heavenly Father God almighty in heaven. We will never understand it all: so spiritual. But all of the humiliation that you have endured brings forth humility. God is in it! Humility comes from the most humiliating situations. It’s God’s way. This is where you will always find God: in your brokenness. We all must be broken. That’s the revelation.

There are many times we all have made wrong decisions or the fact that we have wounded someone by hurting their feelings. That is the worst: hurting someone’s feelings by belittling them or disrespecting another human being. This never sits well with God. We must repent and make it right with that person(s). You know if you have hurt someone’s feelings or rejected them for no good reason, you must fix it! God only dwells in a contrite heart. Contrite is the feeling or experiencing remorse or penitence affected by guilt. You must have a contrite heart. This is where God dwells (lives). A broken heart brings forth humility and penitence (repentance) spirit brings the blessings of God and the restitution of all of your heartaches from years of bondage and wounds. Once you give your broken heart to Jesus, he will heal it the way he did little Laura’s heart when she became an adult.

Laura became a wonderful Christian and she discovered the beauty of giving all of her hurt to Jesus, even the disappointments of the doll that she wanted. Laura is a Christian and is healed and delivered from the disappointment and hurt of her past and future. Jesus can be a healer in every area of your life: present and past.

Laura owns a shelter for hurting women and children and every child that comes through her doors she gives them a beautiful toy in remembrance of the doll she wanted so long ago. Laura doesn’t have a broken heart any longer, but God took her pain to be a blessing to other little children who are hurting. Jesus healed Laura’s heart. He wants to heal yours too. Let go right now and give all of your hurt and pain and disappointment to Jesus and say, “Dear Jesus, heal my broken heart. Amen.”

“For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones” (ISAIAH 57:15).

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit” (PSALM 34:18).

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,” (LUKE 4:18).

Glory to God,

Pastor Helen Trower