You’re bummed.
You’ve loved and lost, and you can never feel anything again.
Your heart is empty, a chamberless void, a token spot in your chest where nothing good will ever reside again.
Except God says otherwise. He says he wishes to remove your pain, scrub it away completely, and refill you with something that will bond you eternally to him.
Psalm 51:10 says:
“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.”
How does God clean out our heart that he might renew a right spirit in us? In early North America, the Wampanoag Indians cut down trees and scraped and burned out the interior of the tree (talk about a broken heart) to make something beautiful and useful.
A dugout canoe.
See, their canoes were vital to their survival. The tree had to suffer horribly so that the tribe could survive.
What is God scraping and burning out of you? Let it go. What’s left will be so much better. Your survival may depend on it.
Turn yourself over to him. He will renew your spirit, and you will be forever his.
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