Holes in the Heart

Have you ever fallen into a hole? I am sure you have at one time or another. There are also holes in the human heart and a hole in the heart is serious business. Thank God, there are surgeons with the ability to fix those. When it comes to emotional holes and spiritual holes in the human heart, it’s amazing how many people are walking around with that heart condition untreated. Like its physical equivalent, a hole in our spiritual heart will greatly limit what our life could be and one day it could cost us our life. There is good news though! There is a surgeon who repairs the spiritual hole in the human heart. His Name is Dr. Jesus and we can read about Him in John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. The last night with His disciples before He is taken, He sees that His disciples have troubled hearts. He says don’t let your inner man be troubled.  He then tells them the reason why they shouldn’t.  Do you boys believe in God? Then believe in me also. Then He goes on to tell them “I am leaving for a little while to go prepare a place for you and then I am coming to get you and you will be where I am.”  Here we have it; no matter how bad things get the child of God has something to look forward to. When you fall into the holes in life, you can stay there or you can learn from the hole and trust Him to avoid them or better yet walk down a different street.

Autobiography in Five Short Chapters by Portia Nelson

Chapter I.

I walk down the street.

There's a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I fall in.

I am lost...I am helpless;

It isn't my fault.

It takes forever to find a way out.

Chapter II.

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I pretend I don't see it.

I fall in again.

I can't believe I am in the same place;

But it isn't my fault.

It still takes a long time to get out.

Chapter III.

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I see it is there.

I still fall in....it's a habit.

My eyes are open.

I know where I am.

It is my fault.

I get out immediately.

Chapter IV.

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I walk around it.

Chapter V.

I walk down a different street.

Pretty good image for the Christian experience, isn’t it?  Wouldn’t it be great if we could all learn from the “holes” in life and NOT repeat the inevitable one-way ticket back to the bottom?  Instead of blaming, instead of succumbing to habit, if we could trust the Lord to guide us to a new “walk” in life, our lives would be different.

                                         “Don’t look where you fall, But where you slipped”