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Put My Heart Back Together

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Oh, Lord, I need You now more than ever.  Would you put my heart back together?  I searched the world till my head hurt.  Just to find out Your way’s better.  Oh-oh, Your way’s better.”  This is the chorus from Forrest Frank’s song, Your Way’s Better.   It has gone viral this spring/summer.    A dance with hand motions has filled my Instagram and Facebook feeds.

 

No matter your thoughts on this genre of Christian music, there is much truth in the lyrics.

  

Many ask John and I how God began the Revival in Brownwood, Texas in 1995 which spread to hundreds of college campuses.


The answer lies in the lyrics of this song. Brokenness.  A realization that without acknowledging our sin and our inability to do life without Jesus we come up with our own solutions to our problems.


And His way is better. 

 

What is His way?  Brokenness.  After King David was confronted by Nathan, the prophet, he wrote:  “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.”  Psalm 51:17


Sometimes God uses painful circumstances to break us and at times He uses others to break us.

 

I found it ironic this summer that this viral song talked about a heart needing to be put back together.  My heart physically needed to be put back together recently. I needed a pulse field ablation to correct my irregular heartbeat due to paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.

Upon examining my heart, I realized it needed spiritually healing as well as physical healing. My heart needed to be broken over what breaks God’s heart.  My heart had also become more focused on others sins instead of my own.


My heart had become prideful.  Pride is simply wanting others to think we are better than we actually are.  “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.”  Philippians 2:3


God desires for us to examine our own hearts.

What are signs that a heart is broken over the right things?

  • Being more concerned over my sin than someone else’s.  

  • Going where Jesus goes:  to the lost and hurting.  Luke 19:10


God is at work around the world, especially among the younger generation.  Maybe He is working in the younger generation because they are laying down their pride and acknowledging their own sin and their inability to fix anything apart from Him.


Lord, forgive me for being prideful!  Allow my heart to break over my sin and over what breaks Your heart.


Your way is always best!




 
 
 

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