Wednesday, April 11, 2018

News Hope Weekly 4/11/18

A sign in a blacksmith shop said, "We can mend anything but the break of day and a broken heart."Jesus can mend broken hearts.

Luke 4:16-18

"And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord."


On a  Sabbath day in the dawn of His ministry, Jesus goes to a hometown synagogue. At the synagogue, they hand Him Isaiah and He reads the scroll aloud. The scripture covers the work promised Messiah, so these verses tell us why Jesus came and what He came to do. He is alive and He is with us today, so His work continues right now. This passage tells us that Jesus is here to mend your broken heart. 

A young boy named Billy Gardner ran down the hall of his Sunday school class with a heart-shaped clay dish he made for His mother. As he is running, he drops the dish, it breaks into hundreds of pieces, and he begins to cry. His mother picks him up and says,  "Don't worry Billy, we will pick up all the pieces and glue them back together. We will fix that heart." Jesus is the heart mended. No matter how many pieces it is in or how many times it has been broken, it is what He does. Give Jesus your broken heart and He will fix it. .