“What becomes of the broken hearted?” Well, we know what become of some of them. They become abusive, and or workaholics. Others are afraid to speak in front of people, become angry men and depressed women. But why are our hearts broken? Start with the assumption that this world is broken and that means that everything in it is damaged.

Everything needs fixing. Every relationship, people’s emotional health, the weather, the earth, (earthquakes and storms) and the economy. Life is broken; even the things that are most precious to us, our marriage partners, are broken people too. Families are broken. Even love has been damaged. When sin entered the heart of man, it fractured the vessel, breaking it forever in this life.

This a fallen world where sin, Satan, corruption and negative forces conspire to make like hard and unfair. Bad things happen to good people and good things to happen to bad people. And even the good people aren’t all good; they are broken too.
The effects are easy to spot. Masses of people tired of life, living a jaded existence, trying to prop up their meaning-less life with meaningless activities. Tired of trying to get along with people, with themselves, with their past and with their secret shame.

Friend, our brokenness goes back to the choice the first Adam made in the garden and our hope of changing and entering a new life, goes back to the choices the last Adam made in the garden as he was about to reconcile us back to Father through the cross. Now recovery from broken heartedness, is receiving a new spirit through faith in Christ and learning to live consistent with who we are in Christ.