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The true nature of a man’s heart is that of expectation and hope. It is the heart that is strengthened by God (cf. Psalm 73:26), and Jesus Christ said that He came to “bind up the broken hearted.” The marvel of the indwelling Spirit of God is that He can give heart to a despairing man.
There is a difference between the human sympathy we give to a discouraged man and what the Holy Spirit will do for him. We may sit down beside a broken-hearted man and pour out a flow of sympathy, and say how sorry we are for him, and tell him of other people with broken hearts; but all that only makes him more submissive to being broken-hearted. When our Lord sympathizes with the heart broken by sin or sorrow, He binds it up and makes it a new heart, and the expectation of that heart ever after is from God.
Reflection Questions: What more do I hope to receive from God than sympathy? How does God’s hope for me transcend sympathy? Why would I settle for sympathy when I can have restoration?
Quotations taken from The Moral Foundations of Life, © Discovery House Publishers
There is a difference between the human sympathy we give to a discouraged man and what the Holy Spirit will do for him. We may sit down beside a broken-hearted man and pour out a flow of sympathy, and say how sorry we are for him, and tell him of other people with broken hearts; but all that only makes him more submissive to being broken-hearted. When our Lord sympathizes with the heart broken by sin or sorrow, He binds it up and makes it a new heart, and the expectation of that heart ever after is from God.
Reflection Questions: What more do I hope to receive from God than sympathy? How does God’s hope for me transcend sympathy? Why would I settle for sympathy when I can have restoration?
Quotations taken from The Moral Foundations of Life, © Discovery House Publishers
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Hope: A Holy Promise is an inspirational treasury of quotations from the works of Oswald Chambers, the world's most beloved devotional writer and author of My Utmost for His Highest. Chambers will inspire and challenge you with his simple and direct biblical wisdom.
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