Who Are The Broken-Hearted
Psa 147:3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
Who Are The Broken-Hearted?
1. Those whose hearts are broken by circumstances.
Israel in exile was broken-hearted. Their spirit was crushed and broken by their long captivity: “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion” (Psalm 137:1).
Your heart may be broken by the current pandemic affecting the whole world. Perhaps you have lost your job. Perhaps you have lost a loved one to the pandemic. Remember our God heals the broken-hearted and binds up the wounds. Psalm 119:50 says: “This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.”
The word “quickened” is an old English word which means to give life. In his most depressing moments, the Psalmist’s spirit was revived, comforted by the Word of God.
Today, when we are suffering afflictions, we can find the same comfort from the Word of God. Paul wrote: “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope” (Romans 15:4).
The examples from the Bible characters who overcame and triumphed over their afflictions provide comfort and hope for us that God will do the same for us because He is faithful.
2. The broken in heart is one whose heart is affected by sin.
(i) It could be the sins of others.
Lot was a righteous man living among people who were sinful. The Bible says daily Lot was vexed by the evil he saw around him (2 Peter 2:8).
In some countries, evil is more rampant than in others – nudity is right on their TVs in their living rooms. They see scantily-clad women the moment they step out of their doors, and gay couples shamelessly hugging and kissing each other and marrying each other. In certain districts, they see women selling their bodies and addicts openly consuming drugs. For the righteous, their souls will be greatly troubled, sore distressed, vexed, broken, by the sins around them.
(ii) It could be his own sin.
In some countries, evil is more rampant than in others – nudity is right on their TVs in their living rooms. They see scantily-clad women the moment they step out of their doors, and gay couples shamelessly hugging and kissing each other and marrying each other. In certain districts, they see women selling their bodies and addicts openly consuming drugs. For the righteous, their souls will be greatly troubled, sore distressed, vexed, broken, by the sins around them.
(ii) It could be his own sin.
David’s heart was broken when he realised he had sinned (see Psalm 51). A member of the church at Corinth was deeply grieved when told of his sin that Paul has to write to the church to comfort him: “So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow” (2 Corinthians 2:7).
The sins of men need healing. God has appointed a Physician for men; that Physician is none other than the Son of God (John 3:16). God has sent Christ to " heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised” (Luke 4:18).
The sins of men need healing. God has appointed a Physician for men; that Physician is none other than the Son of God (John 3:16). God has sent Christ to " heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised” (Luke 4:18).
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