Psalm 51:17 English Standard Version (ESV) The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Does God only save those with a broken heart? Probably not because I do not hae any experience in finding Jesus in a loving family that showed me how great a love He is to us. Coming to Christ from a love standpoint is gentle. Praise God for parents and grandparents that raised up a generation to know love and not heartbreak.

We tend to deal with what we know. “This is my experience, can you relate?” It is our most effective witness because it was real and painful and necessary. Life teaches us need and there are only two sources of fulfillment, self-gratification and gracious giving.

Self-gratification does not recognize Ps 51:17 as valid or necessary. The more selfish the person the greater the distain for others. Love of self becomes a user and the true meaning of love escapes them.

What if your primary necessity is to be loved? Can people fill that empty void in your heart that cries out? Needy people tend to cling with a tight grip and do not see that love flourishes in freedom. No amount of understanding of the concept of love replaces the love that is missing which is perfect.

Perfect love only exists in God. Look to Ps 51:17 again and read it this way.

God sacrifice a broken spirit, a broken heart and a contrite heart because He loves us perfectly.

It cost God His Son. Sending His Son into the world meant losing Him from the throne of heaven. Sending Him to die as the sacrifice for all mankind’s sins broke His heart. The hardest thing any Father has ever done is to put another’s sins upon His own Son. Innocence died in Christ that day.

We don’t look at it that way because we can only see the need in ourselves.

Accept Christ into your heart and that will change.

Psalm 119:10 English Standard Version (ESV) With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!

Psalm 119:18 English Standard Version (ESV) Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

Psalm 119:41 English Standard Version (ESV) Let your steadfast love come to me, O Lord, your salvation according to your promise;

Thousands of years ago this writer cries out for help. Seeking God with the whole heart did not allow him to obey, so he cries out make me. The law was written as plainly as any man could ask and he cries out, “I don’t get it.” God said He loved them yet they did not feel it.

That was the other side of the cross and here we are two thousand years later after God kept His promise and sent all the help we will ever need. Yet mankind cries out just as loudly today as they did in Psalm 119. “Help me, I just don’t get it.”

That is not true for all of us and some of us have had all our fears and doubts answered. The truth here is that the help they seek abides in us and wants to touch their lives in meaningful ways. We feel it and we want to help and still with all we know and are in Christ, it doesn’t seem to be enough.

Satisfaction will only come when they accept that free will offering of Christ. There is nothing we can do to make people accept it. Over the years I have heard people say thank you only to discover they accepted intellectually and not with their heart.

God wants to abide in the heart, not the head.

Try as I might I cannot tell anyone how to accept Christ into the heart. Only that broken heart can say what it will take.