Something we all fear, something we all try our very best to
avoid, something we hope we never have to understand.
Yet we live and the only way to live this wonderful thing
called life is to do so with our whole heart.
The joys experienced, the ones that make your heart flutter, make you
appreciate the way our feelings are made.
The way joy makes us bubbly, the way a smile refreshes our spirit, the
way laughter is contagious and makes for memories you will always cherish. But when we consider the joy of the Lord. A joy that is a deep, fulfilling, ever abounding joy that captures our whole being
simply as we read God's Word and yield to His leadership; oh is that ever wonderful!
So life carries on in its routine hum until one day, you
loose it. The heart fluttering joy is
gone. The smile has vanished. The laughter is only forced. Your heart throbs an aching pain that doesn’t
relinquish, doesn’t stop, and doesn’t get better…only grows more intense with
each passing moment. You want it to
stop. You want to somehow, in this
dreaded realm of a broken heart, just have one minute of relief from this
pain. How will you continue on?
Well the answer lies in that true joy we spoke of above…when
all of the physical things we attribute to happiness have vanished, that joy
remains there for the taking.
There are steps we must take.
- Comfort- It feels distant and out of reach, until we open God’s Word and find that we serve and worship the God of ALL comfort (“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;”). Start there, with the knowledge God cares about everything that you are going through. He understands separation- He had to give up fellowship with His Son as Jesus hung on that cross bearing our sin. He understands pain- watching His Son die in agony on that tree. He loves you with a love that passes knowledge (“And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God”)! LET Him comfort you, cry to Him, pray to Him, lean on Him, let Him be your strength and support. And all of that agonizing hurt will eventually bring healing.
- Thankfulness- Once God has comforted us by His Word we begin to feel the relief of giving the burden to Him. We begin to see ALL of the blessings Christ has blessed us with and thankfulness begins to take root. We see His perfect, unending faithfulness through every second of grief. We can’t help but thank Him. The more we thank Him, the more a thankful spirit grows and abounds, and the more comforted we feel.
- Joy- This can’t help but follow as we bask in the complete and perfect comfort God has given. As we thank Him for His blessings and faithfulness. Our broken heart fills with joy, true joy, the joy of the Lord. And the healing does come.
I know the pain will still come in
intense waves at times. Your heart will still
hurt to the point it feels as if a knife continues stabbing an open wound. But you have hope, and nothing can take that
from you. So I encourage you to LET God
do His beautiful work in your life and trust Him. Really trust Him, with every day of your
life. Trust His perfect will and plan. Realize that we're not promised a tomorrow so I encourage you to seize every opportunity of today that you have to glory in Christ and reach out to those around you with the love of Christ. For Christ is our life!!!!
"When Christ, who is
our life, shall appear,
then shall ye also appear with him in glory."
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