Heartbreak

Have you ever had your heart broken?

What causes heartbreak? In every case, it has to do with love. A boy not loving you anymore and breaking up with you...or a girl who you want to love you so badly but she doesn't give you the time of day...or a parent ignoring you when you need advice...or a child ignoring you when they think it's "their way or the highway"...

...all of these things cause heartbreak.

Here's how heartbreak is defined in the dictionary:


heartbreak (ˈhɑːtˌbreɪk)

— n
intense and overwhelming grief, esp through disappointment in love

Disappointment in love. INTENSE and overwhelming GRIEF. When love is given, but not returned. And heartbreak SUCKS doesn't it? Ladies, I think we can all say that we've all become best friends with Ben and Jerry after some boy didn't call us. Heartbreak makes us do crazy things like watch depressing movies, cry our eyes out on the phone to our friends, eat insane amounts of junk food, and sleep all the time, never wanting to leave our houses.

So how do you think God feels? John 3:16- "For God so loved the world..."

And yet people all over the world are denying God, ignoring Him, or forgetting about Him completely.

Jeremiah 2:32 (New International Version)

32 Does a maiden forget her jewelry,
a bride her wedding ornaments?
Yet my people have forgotten me,
days without number.

There's this line in a song by Hillsong that has stuck with me lately. It says, "Break my heart for what breaks yours."

As Christians, this is what we want, to have the heart of Christ. And lately, my heart has been breaking. I have this amazing joy in my heart that God has given me. And I see people in my life who are HURTING, who have nothing but sadness in their lives. And it makes me want to sob. I want to give them this joy that I have. To take away their sadness; to take away their pain.

Human beings will ALWAYS let you down, whether they're your friends, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, you name it, they will let you down. But Jesus will never let you down.

I want nothing more than to see these people come to know Christ and have a relationship with Him, so that they can have something to be happy about in a world full of sadness. And God wants nothing more than to have His children return the love that he showed by sending His Son Jesus to die a horrible death on a cross to save us from our sins. I pray that we Christians can share Christ's love with the world and take away the heartbreak that God feels when His children don't love Him back.

Do you have any INTENSE and overwhelming GRIEF in your life that you can't seem to get rid of on your own? I know someone who can take it all away :) His name is Jesus Christ and he LOVES you more than you know!!

If anyone who reads this wants to know about how you can have a relationship with Jesus, or just need someone to pray for them, leave a comment on here, or email me at sarah.travis714@gmail.com , or if you know my phone number, call me, or come to church with me! I want you to know that you don't have to live in a world of always being heartbroken and always let down, you can have a relationship with a living God who will always carry you and never let you down!

Jesus loves you, and so do I.

Until next time,
ST