As I studied about the healing of a broken heart, I discovered and interesting thought. In the Hebrew the word broken is the word sabar. In the Greek it is the word syntribo. They have the same meaning in English. Literally it means to break, to destroy, or to crush. It is a word that implies violence and destructive force.
We can all experience a broken heart. Things happen in life that crush us. Death or loss or even betrayal can leave us with a broken heart. Divorce is so obvious as to be almost forgotten.
"Hands that used to hold now sign the papers. Lips that used to kiss now say goodbye." This lyric that I heard in a song speaks of this damage in divorce.
Identifying what breaks a heart is fairly easy. Finding how to fix a broken heart is harder. It is only hard because it is a work of God not human effort to do this. Part of Jesus' mission was to heal the broken hearted. Part of the ministry of the church is to provide an arena where Jesus can heal broken hearts today.
The word heal means healed. It means to be free. Jesus doesn't just but a bandage on it and send you away. It is the Greek word iaomai. It means to heal, to be healed, to be free.
Faith opens the possibilities of what the Lord can do for us. All we have to do is ask, and believe. If God can raise people from the dead, your shattered and destroyed heart is able to be healed today. Amen.
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