Soul Snack 207/11 ... The Castle of the Soul

The fortress for life is the heart. It holds the ramparts of protection and guards the inner well-being. In it is the keep to the soul and spirit.

A broken-heart is a breached fortress. It is a castle whose moat is dry or walls are fallen. A broken-heart is vulnerable; it welcomes the weather with little constraint and is exposed to further assaults.

There are no engineers or builders skilled in the repair of a broken heart. There is no army charged with its defence.

The world does not honor a broken-heart and its visible weaknesses can be despised. The broken-heart lives in  feebleness and flees in timidity, both traits this world shuns.

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

God loves the broken-hearted. In brokenness God is free to enter, there are now no barriers to Him. When Jesus  enters He will brook no enemies nor permit them to follow His entry. The castle of the soul again becomes the fortress of life but now with a divine guard on duty.

Brokenness is the path to blessing and collapse is the path to heavenly capture.

Today's Soul Snippet:

I can only know the God of love when I stop to receive the love of God.