A Broken Heart

His love is the heartbreaking kind.  

It's not just being filled, it's being poured out.  
It's the healing but it also encompasses the breaking.  
It's the wholeness but it's also the scattering.

John 12:23-24  
Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.

His love is the ravaging, painful, passionate kind.  
It brings life but it doesn't shy from death.

John 15:13
No one has greater love than this - that one lays down his life for his friends.

His calling to love is a calling to scatter the pieces of our hearts.  
It's a calling to give away pieces of ourselves.  
It's a calling to lay down our lives for others, over and over again.

John 12:27
"Now my soul is greatly distressed.  And what should I say? 'Father, deliver me from this hour? ' No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour."

We love because God first loved us.  In our filth, He loved us. And He was broken for us, He poured Himself out for us.

The enemy of the Christian life is not brokenness, and love is not at enmity with pain or suffering or sorrow or heartbreak. 

Love requires a breaking, it is the very act of giving away pieces of your self.  Even Christ was broken and He was broken for love.

A selfish heart hoards it's many pieces for fear of those who would trample it, those who would take and not reciprocate, those who would lay it to the side.  

A selfish heart is ruled by fear of sorrow, by fear of the pain that must accompany the breaking.
                                      

But a selfless heart gives and expects nothing in return.  

It scatters its precious pieces about the earth.  
It is ever being poured out but it is always being filled.  
It is ever being broken but it is always being healed.  
It is ever scattered but always being made whole.  

The selfless heart imitates its Savior.



author: Brianna