Several months ago one of my daughter’s two dogs passed away. Her dog Sasha did not make the move from Arizona to Tennessee too well. She struggled in adjusting to the changes that occured here. Even though she had a nicer place, including the freedom to roam a very large fenced in yard with her dog buddy Dixie, she just didn’t seem to be very happy. Dixie had her troubles too. They had lots of animal friends around them that were familiar to what they had in Arizona. They had ducks, horses, cats and they had one neat addition, and that were the cows on the farms around us! A lot of their unhappiness probably stemmed from them getting very old too. A couple of months ago, Sasha got very sick, so we had to have her put down. Dixie was ok for about a day and a half until she realized Sasha was not coming back. We slowly started to see a change in Dixie. She wouldn’t eat for days at a time and she was less active. You could see that she was missing her best friend. It was very sad. She was dying of a broken heart! It was very hard to watch. Many of us go through this life with a broken heart and we don’t even know it! Because of what Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden by disobeying God’s instructions to them, people have lived with a broken hearts since then. Our bodies have been dying (like little Dixie) since the time we are born, because of our broken hearts. Our hearts are broken because we have a broken relationship with God. Why? When man sinned in the Garden, it severed the close relationship we had with God and thus our bodies and our hearts would slowly die. It was not supposed to be this way! We were to live forever in perfect condition! Dixie had no cure, she died about 2 weeks ago. But, is there a cure for us? Oh yes there is!! Thank God there is!! He is our Blessed Hope! Not only can He mend (forever) our broken heart (and our bodies in heaven), but he can also mend our broken relationship with Him! The most famous verse in all the Bible says this: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. (Psalm 34:18). Psalms 147:3 says: “He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.” Oh, what the great Physician can do! And some day this is what will happen!: “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”
Don’t be like Dixie and try to live with a broken heart! Ask Jesus to come and live in your heart and life and He will bind up your wounds and be your forever friend (He won’t live like Sasha did)! He is waiting for you to call upon Him! Don’t delay!