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Slim for Him 3/28
Topic Started: Mar 28 2005, 04:58 AM (27 Views)
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From "Slim for Him," by Patricia B. Kreml

Healing the Broken Heart

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. Psalm 147:3

A broken heart can hurt more than physical pain sometimes and in the fleshly sense, there is no treatment for it. You can't soak it in hot water like a broken toe or bandage it like a cut or rub it like a strained muscle. All of us have experienced heartbreak and have soothed our wounds with food and junk food from time to time. Remember how little it really helped? In fact, it only made matters worse.

One thing that a glutton is brokenhearted over is being a glutton. One look in the mirror when dressing to go out or one look at the plate heaped with food the second time around is enough to break anyone's heart. I suppose in the back of our minds we think there is no help for this internal pain, so we turn to what we love best----food----for consolation and only increase the cause of our broken heart.

God can mend your heart, bind up those internal wounds and give you back your joy, peace, and health if you repent of your waywardness and turn to Him. If food is still your first love, your heart will still be broken. Give up that idol and worship only the Father. Then claim Psalm 147:3 and enjoy the miracle of God's love. When you are right with Him, He will heal your broken heart and take away the cause of it. Eating will never give you what you need.

Father, only you know what is in the depth of my heart. No one else can understand the reason my heart is broken, but you can. I turn to you confessing and repenting of using food (or whatever) for consolation and help. Take my fragile heart and mend and restore it that I might love you, others and myself as I should. Lord, I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ who shed His precious blood for me on the cross, that I might not have to suffer this broken heart.

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