Fearlessly Courageous
Desk of Dennis Piller
5 22 2024
When was the last time your heart broke for someone else?
The last time you poured out your heart to help mend the cracks in another…Really?
Can you remember? What does it take to get you to bleed for the hurts of others…for the love of others? It’s God’s love you know … It’s his love that the Holy Spirit poured into you. Why?
So you could give it away. How is that going for you?
What are you doing with the overflow of your heart?
What is a broken heart spiritually? “Both repenting and believing require that we turn to the Lord with broken hearts and contrite spirits. The word for “heart” in Hebrew refers to the “inner man” or “will.”
To have a broken heart means that we are willing
to put off the natural man and yield our will to God’s will”.
But we encounter so many Christians and non-christians, that have lost it! Lost their perspective…They are broken, emotionally, spiritually, and financially and can’t see which side is up. They are angry and unforgiving. They are not looking for the peace of God or someone to preach to them,
they are looking for rational answers to their catastrophe and typically,
we know, they will not find them outside of God.
So what is God asking of us…of you? How does God deal with the broken hearts of his children? They need the peace of the Holy Spirit. They need a friend to draw along side and hold them
…love them and gently, in the right moment to lead them to the light of god’s paths,
especially in the darkness of the valley of the shadow of deathl
They need the miracle of Jesus in you. As always, it isn’t about us…It’s about them…It’s about pouring in the overflow of our hearts of grace, peace, and forgiveness into them. 1 Tim 2:21-25 Never seeking the grandeur for themselves. He even used a murderer and tentmaker like the Apostle Paul to teach all of us.
Jesus heals our hurts. He is waiting and ready to touch our deepest pain if we will let Him. In a sense, His healing is another divine exchange, in which we offer to Him our hurt and He offers to us His healing. Psalm 147:3 states, “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds (or sorrows).”
God heals the brokenhearted through his son who was broken and chastised for them… Jesus. God sent his son Jesus to “heal the brokenhearted” (Luke 4:18) and “tells the oppressed the good news” (Isaiah 61:1-3). He proclaims to us in (Psalm 147:3) that HE “heals the heartbroken and bandages their wounds”
How many times has the bible underscored that God chooses and uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things? Moses, Peter, Joshua, Ester, Joseph, and so many more.
He didn’t need their abilities, they were not a polished statesman or educated.
He also doesn’t need our ability, but rather our availability.
He uses ordinary people who have nothing of their own to offer, but their faithfulness and willingness
to say “Yes” to God.
That was God’s plan for redemption from day one. He takes our imperfections and brokenness and recreates them into something beautiful. Then he uses them to relate to others, to feel what they are feeling and lead them to the good news of healing and redemption.
