God blesses the brokenhearted
Faustino de Jesús Zamora Vargas
SUMMARY: Repentance is a daily exercise that requires a broken and contrite heart. We often overlook our faults and fail to seek God's forgiveness, accumulating sin like trash. However, appearing before the Lord with a repentant heart is necessary for a true relationship with Him. The sadness that comes from God produces repentance that leads to salvation, while the sadness of the world produces death. God blesses the humble and restores the contrite heart that seeks Him.
Broken heart without the fruit of repentance is hypocrisy. A repentant heart experiences brokenness from the depths of the soul. Sincere grief is itself the fruit of a repentant heart. God leads us to the breakdowns of life to bring out the best in the inner man, to make his love and compassion visible, to remind us that he is the author of faith, the architect of all consolation. Repentance is a daily exercise and that is why you have to get right with God every day. We are too fragile and we should not show too much holiness, without first examining ourselves before the word of God and stripping our soul before him crying out for mercy. King David did and was a man after God's own heart.
We live too hectic lives, we hardly know how to redeem time: obligations at home, necessary concerns for family members, work; everything comes together in complicity so that we do not approach God as we should and talk to him about our faults and not a day goes by without us failing in something. Perhaps we did not give it importance when we murmured against the neighbor or the brother of the church, perhaps God can understand the reasons why I denied the word to the one who offended my son; after all, God forgives me because he knows that I love him. There is no time for sadness for the fault committed because God loves me with the joy of the Christian life. Day after day and sin accumulates like trash that you don't want to throw away.
A biblical commentator very wisely expressed that to appear before the Lord is the desire of the righteous and it is the terror of the hypocrite. So it is, truly. If God himself has not produced sadness in your heart for the fault committed, there is no desire to repent ... because there is no true relationship with God. It is painful to appear before the Lord when we are aware that we are failing him, but it is necessary, if not essential. The Christian life is measured by intimacy with the Lord. The fullness of God becomes real when we are sensitive to the voice of the Spirit, to his word that convicts us so that we humble ourselves with a broken heart. So God bless. Paul wrote to the Corinthians: "The sadness that comes from God produces repentance that leads to salvation, of which we must not repent, while the sadness of the world produces death" (2 Cor 7.10)
The wisest thing to do is to appear before the Lord. He knows us well and has promised not to reject a broken heart as the fruit of repentance. Are you sad about some sin committed that robs you of hours of sleep and makes the pain unbearable? That is the sadness that comes from God. Humble yourself! Seek him with all your being and repent from the heart. David knew the effects of repentance and humiliation before his (our) God. "The Lord is close to the brokenhearted, and saves the downcast in spirit." (Ps 34.18)
The soul may be dejected, and the heart may be shattered, but do not forget that he is the best restorer if you go to his presence and show him both in full humiliation. God blesses the humble and calms the storms of conscience if we turn to him without expecting retribution, but a brief sip of his living water that renews our interior, that refreshes the heart.
God bless your Word!
We live too hectic lives, we hardly know how to redeem time: obligations at home, necessary concerns for family members, work; everything comes together in complicity so that we do not approach God as we should and talk to him about our faults and not a day goes by without us failing in something. Perhaps we did not give it importance when we murmured against the neighbor or the brother of the church, perhaps God can understand the reasons why I denied the word to the one who offended my son; after all, God forgives me because he knows that I love him. There is no time for sadness for the fault committed because God loves me with the joy of the Christian life. Day after day and sin accumulates like trash that you don't want to throw away.
A biblical commentator very wisely expressed that to appear before the Lord is the desire of the righteous and it is the terror of the hypocrite. So it is, truly. If God himself has not produced sadness in your heart for the fault committed, there is no desire to repent ... because there is no true relationship with God. It is painful to appear before the Lord when we are aware that we are failing him, but it is necessary, if not essential. The Christian life is measured by intimacy with the Lord. The fullness of God becomes real when we are sensitive to the voice of the Spirit, to his word that convicts us so that we humble ourselves with a broken heart. So God bless. Paul wrote to the Corinthians: "The sadness that comes from God produces repentance that leads to salvation, of which we must not repent, while the sadness of the world produces death" (2 Cor 7.10)
The wisest thing to do is to appear before the Lord. He knows us well and has promised not to reject a broken heart as the fruit of repentance. Are you sad about some sin committed that robs you of hours of sleep and makes the pain unbearable? That is the sadness that comes from God. Humble yourself! Seek him with all your being and repent from the heart. David knew the effects of repentance and humiliation before his (our) God. "The Lord is close to the brokenhearted, and saves the downcast in spirit." (Ps 34.18)
The soul may be dejected, and the heart may be shattered, but do not forget that he is the best restorer if you go to his presence and show him both in full humiliation. God blesses the humble and calms the storms of conscience if we turn to him without expecting retribution, but a brief sip of his living water that renews our interior, that refreshes the heart.
God bless your Word!
