5 Steps Toward God When Your Heart is Broken
Five Steps to Restore Your Broken Heart
I know that living with hope in your heart through troubled times isn’t easy. I’m the guy who wrote an entire book about it: When God Breaks Your Heart. Some days I want to give up. There are nights when the ways that this disease has broken my heart make it hard for me to even think about getting up the next morning to face another day. I don’t know all of the pain of your personal life, but I do know some of it. I wrote this book to help you see how God’s love for you can define your life, even when your heart is broken.
Here are five steps I believe will help you along the path of connecting or reconnecting to the One who restored my heart,–Jesus Christ, God’s Son.
1) Let it hurt.
The first mistake most of us make is thinking that if I can just keep it from hurting, it won’t. You probably already know that this is futile. But if you don’t, the time will come when the pain of your tragedy or disappointment will wash over your life and you will feel truly hopeless and alone. Though this is a desperate feeling, it’s the only starting point toward hope.
I’ve been teaching Psalm 138:8 for over three decades and telling the story of how that wonderful sentence, “The Lord will accomplish what concerns me,” became our life verse. It was a dramatic moment in 1978 when a young Lieutenant Ed Underwood thought he was saying goodbye to his bride and his little family.
