I provided a place for you to stay
Fragile heart - don't turn your eyes off me
Come find your rest in me today
I will be your perfect father
I will love you like no other
I will love you like a mother
Still your thirst and meet your deepest need
I heal your heart
Restore the broken parts
Nothing you will miss
Receive the father's kiss
Susi wrote this song a couple of weeks ago and sent it to me. To be honest for the first day or so I struggled to receive it as I did not think my heart was fragile nor in need of restoration. But as I have thought about these words and meditated on them I have begun to realise how true it is.
Just as we care for our physical heart so too, we need to look after our spiritual heart. It is easily wounded or hurt and can take a long time to recover from damage it has suffered. Tina Turner sang a song ‘What’s love got to do with it’ which contains the line “who needs a heart when a heart can be broken”. Our hearts break easily!Our hearts are the source of our life and they need to be protected, healed and restored. There is a safe place where these things can take place and that is when we trust our hearts to our Father. His love will keep our fragile hearts safe and bring that restoration and healing we long for. God has promised to cleanse our hearts and give us a new heart (Ezekiel 39: 26), a new heart filled with his life and Spirit.
This morning I read Psalm 37 v4-5: "Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust in him and he will do this."Since receiving Susi's song I have sought to turn and gaze on him and let my heart find the place of rest he offers.
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