Heartbroken?

if you live long enough, you will have time to imagine how the story of your life will unfold.  given time, you can insert future chapters that reflect your deepest heart's desires.  in quiet moments, you can read ahead and the story you've written warms your heart.  there, in those chapters yet to come, your heart is laid bare.

if you live long enough, you will have time for life to lay waste to more than one of those imagined chapters.  the messiness of life steps in and gives no consideration to the vulnerability of a heart completely invested in a future that simply will not come to pass.

heartbroken.

your heart breaks because it was tied to something breakable.  imagined chapter 17 has been shredded and that part of your heart is fractured - and fear seizes the moment.  the realization that you have less control than you thought can leave you frustrated, angry...  paralyzed.  fear finds it's surest footing in the cracks of a broken heart - a heart too tied to breakable things.

hope for a broken heart...

God makes this easy for us - but we seem to insist on complicating things.  here is hope - wrap your heart in the unshakable promises of God.

• God is Creator
• God is Sovereign
• God is Faithful
• God is for you

life will constantly present storms that seem hopeless.  waves will crash over you.  chapters will be written and re-written without your consent.  tears will fall.

but...

a heart wrapped in the certainty of the promises of God will always find it's way to hope.  a heart invested in God will see tomorrow's victory through the haze of today's trials.  we live in a fallen world and there is no avoiding the sting of disappointment... grief... loss...  we are never without hope and help...  

God is the God of the heartbroken.  

God is the great physician.  

God is our wounded healer.