Title: God of Healing of Broken Hearts
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God who heals the broken heart
Psalm 147:1 3
broken heart
Originally, our human heart was created by God in a healthy way, and we put it in the depths of the human heart.
With this healthy heart, humans were supposed to have personal fellowship with God and to love each other, so it was very good in God's sight.
However, a problem arose, and man fell into Satan's temptation.
He did not believe in God's Word and disobeyed it, so he committed a sin and began to get hurt.
First of all, my personal relationship with God was broken and I was abandoned by God. Next, the relationship of love with people was broken, and they exchanged hate, quarrels, and betrayal. And the mind cannot rule the world according to God's will, and the human mind becomes caught up in desire and struggles with dissatisfaction with desires.
Now the human heart has become a broken heart.
People are thrown into a harsh, evil and harsh world.
They live together at home, at school, and at work. They live in it and are hurt and hurt.
So it hurts, heals and gets worse, and everyone lives with a broken heart.
Let's look at the symptoms of a broken heart. Symptoms come in three main forms.
The first is your relationship with yourself.
Broken hearts often fail to love themselves.
There is a word called self-esteem.
It is the heart of loving and valuing oneself as if it lacks, as if it were weak, as if it were weak.
So, people with high self-esteem feel happy because they are themselves.
Broken hearts suffer from this self-esteem. You don't value yourself.
I wish I was someone other than myself. I am always dissatisfied with myself.
So I always listen to what others have to say. “What will other people say to me?” Focus your attention here. When other people say something bad to me, it becomes an arrow and sticks in my heart.
Those words make me cringe. Those words always haunt me.
The second is relationships with others.
Broken-hearted people often fail to love others, and broken-hearted people live by building a wall of heart between them.
Because of the memory of being rejected by others in the past. Because of the memories of being betrayed by others in the past.
It is because of memories of being severely hurt by others in the past. I don't want to be hurt anymore and I don't want to hurt others, so I build a high wall of my heart today as well.
The problem is that that wall of mind creates a bigger scar for me. “Why am I always alone?”, “Why doesn’t anyone love me?” “Why can’t I love someone?” These thoughts make me depressed. torment me
The third is our relationship with God.
In many cases, people with broken hearts do not love God and believe in God.
There are many people who talk a lot about God, but do not have a passionate confession of love for God deep in their hearts.
In some cases, God feels far away and is seen as a supporting actor or extra in a play with God. In other cases, there is a feeling of resentment toward God.
I work hard for God in my own way, but it feels like God doesn't give me special treatment.
In other cases, there is a feeling of resentment against God. “Why do you turn away from me when I cry so earnestly?” “Why have you left me in this torment for so long?” Sometimes I get angry with God.
That's right. This broken heart sometimes manifests its symptoms in the relationship with oneself, sometimes in the relationship with others, and sometimes in the relationship with God. Obviously, these symptoms make us suffer.
It takes away our peace of mind and makes us unhappy.
healing a broken heart
So how can this broken heart be healed? How can I get my heart back healthy?
There is hope in today's text. “Hallelujah, it is good to praise our God; it is beautiful and worthy of praise. The Lord builds Jerusalem, gathers the scattered of Israel, heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” He is praising God as he sees these wounds being healed.
That's right. God knows our broken hearts. And He has already begun to work to heal our broken hearts. He is already touching our broken hearts with an invisible touch.
So what should we do?
First, we must surrender our broken hearts to God.
In Japan, it is customary to eat udon on New Year's Eve, when a young woman enters a small udon house on New Year's Eve holding her two children and the three of them order a bowl of udon.
The hostess, who was serving, noticed immediately and sent a notice to her husband in the kitchen, who filled a bowl full of hot soup with a large bowl of sari on top.
The three of them waited for a while and emptied the bowls after the udon was full.
The next year, on New Year's Eve, the three mothers appear again and order a bowl of udon just like last year.
The hostess quickly recognized it and told her husband to roll up three bowls of udon, but when he saw it, he added more udon noodles to the bowl a little bigger than last year and made the soup warmer.
That night, my wife couldn't stand it, so she yelled at her husband. "you! Why are people so vulgar? How much does three bowls of udon say... How good it would be to feed the poor people with three bowls of udon on New Year's Eve!” My husband says quietly. “This man! You may be able to satisfy your hunger with three bowls of udon, but you shouldn’t hurt your heart more than that. It’s more important to take care of your heart than to take care of a few bowls of udon!”
That's right. People are more likely to hurt their hearts than to fix them.
So it is difficult to entrust our hearts to people. But our Lord heals our hearts. So we can entrust our hearts to the Lord.
Dear all! Don't suffer alone with that broken heart. Do not hide or avoid.
Come to the Lord with that painful heart. Open your broken heart to the Lord.
Then the Lord begins to heal. He caresses, binds, and heals
Second, pray as you are.
Pour out that broken heart to the Lord as it is. Say it as it is.
Psalm 62:8 says: “People, trust in him from time to time, and pour out your hearts before him.” It means to say everything you have in your heart as it is.
In Psalm 109:6 and below, a startling prayer is recorded. “Let the wicked rule over him, and let Satan stand at his right hand, that when he is judged he will come out as a sinner, turn his prayers into sin, shorten his years, let others take his office, his children orphans, and his wives. will become a widow, and let her children wander and beg, and let them leave their desolate houses to beg…”
Simply put, this is what I prayed for. Someone hates me so much I'm going to die. So he prayed, “God, make his wife a widow, and his children orphans, and his family to become beggars and beggars… and further, dry up the seed of his family and cause them to die off.”
This prayer is David's prayer. This is the prayer that David offered to God, saying that he was a man after God's own heart. And this is recorded in the Bible. What does it mean?
It means to openly confess your broken heart to God.
Everyone! Does your husband want to kill you? Tell God as it is. “God, I hate my husband so much that I want to kill him. How can I take care of you?” Do you hate your mother-in-law so much that you hate how she looks? Tell God as it is. “I hate my mother-in-law, God, so please do something.”
But don't worry. Such prayers do not come true. God receives a broken heart and forgets things that do not make sense. This is because prayer is a healing process.
This is because it is the process of removing the poison from the broken heart.
In fact, David hated to have Saul killed and prayed for him to die, but he could have actually killed Saul, but he spared him. Because that heart was healed.
Third, obey the Word.
When God heals our broken heart, He gives a prescription, and if we obey His word, our broken heart will be healed.
There is such a thing as the yo-yo phenomenon. It refers to a phenomenon in which you lose weight through hard work when you are on a diet, and then return to the original shape after a while. A yo-yo is a phenomenon that is thrown like a ride and then returns.
To get rid of this yo-yo phenomenon, you need to radically change your lifestyle after dieting.
That way, you can completely cut off the possibility of going back.
The same goes for our hearts. The wounds in my heart seemed to have healed, but soon they healed again.
The wound heals. Why? It is because our hearts have not fundamentally changed.
In Luke 19, the story of Zacchaeus, who had a hard life with a broken heart, was healed.
After meeting Jesus and being healed of his wounds, Zacchaeus thoroughly followed the Lord's words. I was determined to actively obey the will of the Lord. “I will give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone, I will pay back four times as much.” At this time, Zacchaeus was completely healed of his broken heart.
That's right. When we stand before the Lord with a broken heart, the Lord touches our hearts and speaks. He tells us how we must change. At this time, you must obey the Word thoroughly.
When you ask for forgiveness, you must forgive actively. If you are told to reconcile, you must actively reconcile.
If you are told to love, you must love actively. If you want to share, you must share.
That way the wound doesn't come back. Healed wounds do not heal again.
Dear all! We all live with a painful heart. There are big and small wounds in the heart. Come before the Lord. Pour out your heart to the Lord as it is.
And do what the Lord says. Then you can fix it.