Hope for Hurting Hearts
Is your heart aching with sorrow and grief? Are you trying to comfort a friend or loved one who is experiencing tragedy and Loss? You are not alone. This is not a solitary road you travel. Others have come this way before you and have found the hope and strength you seek today. Some of what follows is strong meat. It will come in small bites to be digested carefully. If it is meant for you, you will know it.
I am a Bible teacher – not a psychologist or psychiatrist and not even a counselor. This blog is purely devotional. What follows comes from long hours of study and prayer and over 40 years of Christian service.
Over the years I have held many broken, wounded hearts in my arms: the young mother who watched her sweet baby die of brain cancer, the wife who sat on my couch weeping over an adulterous husband, the little girl who was abused by her own father, the lonely single woman who thought no one could ever love her, the guilty sinner convinced their sin was past the reach of God’s forgiveness. These and so many more have poured out their tragic and sometimes horrific stories while I listened.
What words of hope and wisdom are there to offer at times like these? As much as we would like to console the broken hearted, there is only one true source of comfort and healing. No one can understand another’s hurt completely. Sometimes we may even feel that others do not care because they do not understand the depth of our sorrow. No one will ever care like Jesus. He understands like no other can. There are things that we may say and do to help a wounded soul, but the greatest of all is leading them closer to the Master’s healing touch.
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. Isaiah 38:17
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