Living With A Broken Heart
Opening
People have varying responses to broken heartedness.
Coi Leray released a song called “Girls is Players Too”, which Pastor Charlie believes is a response to broken heartedness (This is one type of response to broken heartedness).
Martin Luther King, Jr. had an uncanny response to a broken heart (this is the other type of response to broken heartedness). He saw in America an excellent potential to do great good around the world. However, America was about to go into war. So, Dr. King openly casted his opinion against the Vietnam War, and his popularity failed because people claimed he was not a patriot.
Dr. King stressed “There cannot be a great disappointment if there is first no great love”
Dr. King saw in himself a ministry that responded in broken heartedness.
When you run into your own broken heart, your response ought not to be to run from God but to run to God.
Sermon Key Points
The caution this Scripture gives us today is that when you run into your own broken heart, your response ought not to be to run from God but to run to God.
King David in the Psalm is at a point in his life where he has shocked himself.
He is the great grandson of Ruth and Boaz (a family of great faith). Yet David has had an interesting life of heartbreak.
David was a loyal man who was loyal to the people who were loyal to him. David never forgot the people who helped him.
However, it has been long while since he has had a loyal friend.
Instead of fame and money barricading you from trouble & heartbreak, fame and money can actually expose you to problems (i.e.: the fickleness of fake friends; the trouble of pain).
Life is so constituted that one day you will run into you, and you will do something that shocks you.
David made love to Bathsheba (committed adultery) and she got pregnant. David tried to cover the pregnancy up (because that is what humans try to do with sin – cover it up).
God may be waiting on you to repent even though he is still blessing you.
God’s goodness, if you are not careful, can anesthetize you.
Sometimes His blessing is actually meant to make you turn around and repent to Him.
Sin has a way of dealing with you when you won’t deal with it.
You too can come to the day where you say, “God I never imagined in a 100 years that as good as You’ve been to me that I would to turn around that do something like this.”
The Bible is not just something that we read; it is something that reads us.
You do not have to live like God is done with you forever. You do not have to live in the kind of shame that cripples you. You do not have to come to prayer repeating the seams of your failures.
There is some grace for your grief; there is freedom from your guilt!
There is wonder-working power in the blood of the Lamb. So what do you do when despair and grief breaks your heart?
This text urges us to plead with God for pity. Ask Him for Mercy.
Mercy has the ability to look at what you have done, acknowledge it for what it is, and not take your life when it has the assessment.
You will never be compassionate to somebody else until you recognize your own need for compassion.
If you have a high view of God and low view of people, it will make you arrogant.
The Christian is to have an accurate view of God and an accurate view of human nature.
This text urges us to appeal to God for transformation. Ask Him to change you.
Ask Him to ‘de-fail’ you or ‘de-sin’ you (to purify you).
David tells God that He needs Him to wash him thoroughly.
God I need you to do something with me that has never been done before – give me a clean heart! A heart that does not desire this wrong anymore.
Make me better Lord!
This text urges us to ministry.
One thing about David is that despite all his money and fame, you get the feeling that he loved God more than anything and only really wanted Him.
The deepest satisfaction does not come from satisfying our flesh.
Saul went crazy when God took His hand off of him.
The sacrifices of a broken spirit – a broken and contrite heart – over your sin is what God wants.
When who you are and what you’ve done has broken you, know that God is pleased that broke you in the same way that it broke Him.
This means you do not have to be perfect to be used by God.
There are people who are going through what you went through and they need a witness (you) to testify to them that ‘I’ve been where you are’.
God can use your brokenness for ministry.
Open your mouth and tell somebody:
“I’m broken but I am more blessed than I am broken”
“I’ve failed but I have got more favor than my failure”
“I’ve fallen but God is able to pick you up”
God is able to reach you in your brokenness and lift you up.
