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Joanne Lowe
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Hurricane season will be here next month and already they are telling us to start making preparations. They are talking about holding meetings to discuss and plan where the people who are evicted can go to take shelter should a hurricane make landfall where I live. When the hurricanes are threatening where we live we can track their progress on a map. Should the hurricanes actually make landfall we will have had time to stock up on candles, flashlights, batteries, water and ice that will hopefully last until the water and power are restored.
We have another kind of hurricane in our lives that is always here with us. It is more devastating and deadlier than the hurricanes of nature that might make landfall where we live. This hurricane has such magnitude when it makes landfall in our hearts that no amount of planning or fleeing to temporary shelters can help. This hurricane has many things associated with it and the only thing that can help with this horrible assault is the protection and shelter of the love of Jesus.
This hurricane of life that attacks and threatens us, sometimes daily, makes its deadly landfall in the center of our hearts and it causes conflict in our homes, our families and in our relationships with other people. This hurricane has high waves of destruction and the storm surge has the elements of divorce, suicidal thoughts, anger, resentment, bitterness, jealousy, hatred, criticism, sarcasm, loneliness and unforgiveness.
There are no agencies that can help us and no amount of federal aid can help us rebuild and put our lives and hearts together again. The Red Cross was so gracious and kind to deliver meals two times a day to our homes when our power and lights were off after a hurricane landed two years ago. However only Jesus can take away all the horror and the devastation of broken hearts, broken homes, and broken lives when attacked by these strong overwhelming and crippling storms of life. When people say cruel words to us, it is more devastating than the storm surge of a hurricane of nature.
While some people tragically die from the hurricanes that make landfall where they live, if they have made a heart commitment to Jesus and asked Him to forgive them of their sins and come into their hearts to be their personal Saviour then they are assured of a home in heaven and will live for all eternity with Jesus. The reason that the hurricane which floods our hearts is deadlier than the hurricanes of nature is that if we allow all these things to remain in our hearts then we are not in right standing with Jesus and we are breaking His heart.
We may have acknowledged that Jesus is the Saviour of the world and may have even made a heart commitment to Him and are saved but we have allowed these things that bring shame to our precious Saviour to remain in our hearts and nothing that defiles will ever enter into heaven. If you have any of these deadly elements in your heart today, run as fast as you can into the waiting and loving arms of Jesus and ask Him to forgive you and help you to walk in kindness and unconditional love for others as He has commanded us to do.
If your heart is breaking today, tell Jesus all about it. He already knows but He wants you to come to Him and talk to Him about it. That is all prayer really is; having a conversation with the one who loves you so much that He died for you. He proved how much He loves you when He allowed them to crucify Him on the cross of torture. What are you doing to prove to Jesus that you love Him? Are you making Him happy or are you making Him sad? Does He come first in your life before anyone or anything? Thank God for Jesus, the restorer of broken hearts, broken homes and broken lives!