We hear this word and think of the homeless person hooked on drink and drugs sitting on the street and begging. For these people a trauma or tragic past event has led to them being ‘frozen’ deep in their emotions. A broken heart. Trapped inside an adult body there is often a child who has been broken and abused.
Can we change....”can a leopard change it’s spots (Jeremiah 13:23). Who will deliver us.
Man cannot raise himself in his despair..........even the Apostle Paul struggled with his desires, see Romans 7. When Jesus first came on the scene He claimed that He was annointed to ...‘free the captives’ and to’bind up the broken hearted’. This is true. Only Jesus can truely restore a man that has been so broken by sin and rejection.
An addict is someone who can’t break a habit or pattern of behaviour. A christian can be full of addictions and do all they can to break them, but only Jesus can truely sever the root of problems deep in the heart, that have gone unchecked for years. The church needs the radical heart change that only truely coming to Jesus, can provide. The Pharisees knew God’s word and tradition and were part of the chosen people of God, yet they failed to find and appreciate the very presence of God Himself.
What an army we would be in this nation if we truely cried out and turned to the very heart of God shown in Jesus.
Daniel Chuter
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