p. 164 | THE BROKEN-HEARTED

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 14, 1882

THE BROKEN-HEARTED.

It is a beautiful figure, this binding up of the broken-hearted, as though the Crucified One took the liniment and the wrapping, and put it around the broken heart, and with his own dear, gentle hand proceeded to close up the wound and make it cease to bleed. Luke does not tell us that he came to bind up the broken-hearted; if you examine his version of the text, you will read that he came to heal them. That is going still further, because you may bind up, and yet fail to cure it; but Jesus never fails in his surgery. He whose own heart was broken knows how to cure broken hearts.

If you have that broken heart within you, beloved, Christ came to cure you, and he will do it, for he never came in vain. "He shall not fail nor be discouraged." With sovereign power, anointed from on high, he watches for the cause. Heart disease, incurable by man, is Christ's specialty. His gospel touches the root of the soul-ill, the mischief which dwells in that place whence are the issues of life. With pity, wisdom, power, and condescension, he bends over our broken bones, and ere he has done with them he makes them all rejoice, and sing glory to his name.—Selected.