SEE YOU AT THE TOP

Deep maybe your wounds, but God’s grace is deeper. Take your fondest hopes and lay them at His altar. Let them be your love gifts to our tender Jehovah. There is no safer place in all the universe to deposit them. Your highest well-being is enshrined in His heart; there is no atom of malice in His wonderful wisdom.

I have a good friend who once told me something like this, “If the girl is absorbed with the things of God, then to pursue her through horizontal relationships is but an intrusion. Perhaps the direction you should go is upwards, separate from her, closer to God. Who knows, you might see her at the top.”

Think of your search for love as a mountain. Christ is at the peak. Your future spouse is somewhere else on the mountain. You do not know who your future spouse is, where she will be coming from, or how you two will meet. You both are, at this point, strangers to one another. You don’t see her for now, but you see Christ. As each of you pursue intimacy with Christ, both of you come closer to the peak. Then, in due time, you and your beloved will meet at that peak, because your focus is on Christ. By that time, you would have been so satisfied and secure in Christ that you do not need to cling to one another to meet your needs. You will each be in a fantastic position to be a lover than to demand to be loved. You will be so filled with His goodness that you will gladly minister to the other. Hence, you could imagine telling your future bride, “I will see you at the top.”

Many times, we exacerbate our pain by trying to heal ourselves. But the secret is that the healing does not come from you. It comes from God. “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit” (Psalm 34:18.) When we are hurting, God enters the picture. He does not remain aloof. Even though we don’t see Him, He shepherds us on the pathway to healing.

If you are hurting, take comfort in the truth that our God is greater than our mistakes. He can make the crooked straight. He can reach back in time and redeem our past. More wonderfully, He goes before us to prepare a blessed future… if we walk in His ways. This includes walking with Him in our love lives.

The task now is to nurture an intimate, vibrant relationship with God through Jesus Christ. At the end of the day, it will not be you who will mend your broken heart. It will be God. When we get to “the top,” we meet our Great High Priest, who knows and sympathized with our pains and weaknesses. If we think we have lost confidence in ourselves, if we think the loneliness is too much to bear, if we think we can’t go on with life, the secret is to go to Jesus. Follow the Man of Sorrows. He’s been there. He understands. He cares. Mora than you can possibly imagine.

From the Book: How to Mend a Broken Heart

Written By: Nelson T. Dy

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