Your heartbeat

Okay so I am sorry for not posting in forever. With Thanksgiving and the winding down of school life has been super crazy. But anyway on to the world of study...

Recently I was listening to one of my favorite radio programs when I heard this story....

There was once a priest that was spending time in the hospital setting. One day the priest asked a friend of his, who was a surgeon, if he could sit in on a surgery just to see what they were all about. The surgeon was more then welcome to let him in so the next day the priest was sitting in an open heart surgery watching everything take place. Now at one point the surgeon was working on fixing a hole in the heart, as he finished fixing it the turned to priest and said "when I touch it will start to beat again." So the priest stood in wonder as the surgeon tapped the heart.....but nothing happened. The surgeon tried again but again nothing. So CPR was started and everything was being done to get the heart to beat again but nothing helped. So then the priest started praying as he saw something he never thought possible. The surgeon walked to the head of the bed and whispered into the patients ear, "Look I know you are tired, but I fixed your heart, it is now up to you to get it to beat, please just try for me." Sure enough the priest saw the heart begin to beat and the surgeon whispered once again, "Thank you, I knew you could do it."

So why this story. Well think about it. We has human beings have all been hurt in life at some point. Some of us worse then others but emotional pain is something that just happens. Our hearts get holes in them that sometimes need a spiritual surgical intervention. But sometimes it takes more then that sometimes we also have to want to get our heart beating again.

God is the ultimate surgeon who is more then willing to step in and fix the hurt that we have but we sometimes need that extra word of encouragement to get the will to live again. I know I have in the past. And I am sure you have too. God wants to heal us, he wants up to be spiritually healthy but he can only do so much before the ball is in our court. You see we have to want to move forward from the injuries that may have happened before.

I have dealt with having a hole in my heart so big I didn't know what to do with life anymore. Actually I just didn't care what happened anymore. But one day I knew that the hole in my heart was healed, but like the patient I didn't care. I didn't want my heart to beat, It took a while of God whispering in my ear telling me that he fixed the hole it was just all up to me to get it to beat again. Of course it has begun to beat again and stronger then ever because let's face it when God fixes your heart it fixes it in the best way possible.

So here is what I want you to think of today. Do you have a hole that needs to be fixed? How strong is your spiritual heartbeat? Is God in the OR whispering for you to start your heart beating again? Life is a struggle but we have to want to keep going in order to find the greatness that God has planed for us. We have to want to continue before he can show us everything.

Thanks and God Bless!!!