What do you say when someone tells you one of their family members died unexpectedly, or when your friend's husband just got laid off from his job of many years, or when someone tells you someone they love dearly just went to jail? Life is fill of tough circumstances and our hearts get heavy. We are weighted down with the troubles of this world, pierced by the pain.
And we don't really know what to say to those people, because we know if we were going through it there are some things we wouldn't want to hear. For instance, telling someone "I understand" can be so painful for someone going through a tough time. They may feel like there is no possible way anyone can understand, so telling them this does nothing. People can say "I will pray for you", but how many people really stick to this promise? We get busy and we forget. May I dare to suggest that sometimes the best thing is for us to be silent and just lend a listening ear? They need to know that someone cares about what is going on and this can merely be done by listening. And if we are going to say anything, isn't it safe to say that since we don't really know what to say, we let Him do the speaking through us? What about praying for the person right then and there, praying over them in the Spirit? Or maybe pointing them to the ONE who does understand? Because He holds our tears in a bottle and is near to the broken hearted. What about quoting Scripture? Because God's Word contains the perfect remedy to any pain. He is the ultimate healer. We can't heal, but He can.
Life is full of heartache and our hearts get so heavy with the pain. Let's encourage anyone going through a tough time and has a heavy heart to lay it at the foot of the cross, because the one who created our hearts promised us that His yoke is easy and His burden is light. May we all lay our heaviness on the altar before Him, so we don't have to carry such a heavy load. He provides us with a peace that surpasses all understanding. I pray that we can trade our heavy hearts for peaceful hearts.
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