Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
The Lord has good things to say to those who are brokenhearted:
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me; because the Lord hath ... sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted ...” (Isa. 61:1).
When Jesus came, He fulfilled that promise for He taught us, “Blessed [happy, is the meaning] are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted” (Matt. 5:1-4).
A person who has been brokenhearted thinks differently, he speaks differently, and if he sings, thank God (!), sings differently.
The only ones who will share in that glorious experience that only the Lord can give of being “comforted” with His heavenly comfort, are those who “mourn,” who have been brokenhearted.
There are dear people who have been bitterly disappointed in love; the comfort comes in the realization that Jesus has had that experience.
Isaiah says that “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief” (53:3). That language fits the experience of being “despised and rejected” by someone whom you dearly love—which story the annals of divorce abound in.
There is no bitterness of disappointment in love that Jesus, our Savior, has not known. He has been “in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Heb. 4:15).
There is a conclusion: “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need” (vs. 16).
If you feel like a steamroller has rolled over you, come; if you fear that love will forever be a bitter experience, come; if you feel desperately alone in the world (or in the church!), come to Him, pour out your soul before Him.
And let Him bear the burden “henceforth” (cf. 2 Cor. 5:14, 15).
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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