Can We Fix Broken Hearts?

Last week, I chanced upon a large billboard with a Ghanaian cardiologist, Dr Sam Boateng, the 'Face of the British Heart Foundation', proudly posing the question: "Can we fix broken hearts?" Sam says that he is fighting for his family: "My dad has had a stroke and my mom has heart failure."

While Sam still searches for answers, a researcher documented a resounding answer 2000 years ago: 'Yes, He can!' 2000 years ago, a physician by name Dr. Luke wrote about Jesus that He was,

 "...sent to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised." — Luke 4:18

If it is empty and broken, that is when Jesus makes His most powerful intervention. He specializes in using broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread and broken bread to give life. It was a bitterly weeping, broken Peter who returned to greater power than ever. Like a vacuum bulb filled with filaments, the light of Jesus cannot burn brightest in a heart that is full of other things. The oil of God's Spirit can be poured only into empty vessels.

"They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." — Mark 2:17

Jesus still is advertising for the broken. The Lord told Paul:

"My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." — 2Cor 12:9

Are you tempest tossed? Is your life broken, battered, and bruised? Come to the lonely Galilean today and it will surprise you what The Lord can do!

(A writing by Andrews L. Ewoo.)