I was in the car the other day and settling back into listening to non-Christmas music after the holidays. I had on a radio station and saw a new song I hadn’t heard come on the radio. It was entitled “Born with a Broken Heart” and was by Damiono David (I hadn’t heard of him either). The title captured my attention and, like many other songs today, captured an idea that is partially fleshed out by an artist but just misses the full spiritual impact. Here are some of the lyrics in the song that are so close:
I’ve been trying to change (oh)
Trying to find somebody to love me
Oh, no, but I end up in the same #### place again
Hoping I could be different, but I’d be playin’ pretend
I wish that I was perfect (just like you)
But I’m an alien
Oh, no, I’m sendin’ out an SOS
Baby, you can’t fix me
I was born with a broken heart
The song title itself is so fitting and describes our fallen state. Because of the fall, we are born with a broken heart. We try to change for the better, trying to find someone to love us. However, when we look in the wrong place, we can never find the love we so desperately need. . .love that can only come from the One who made us. Because we live in a fallen world, our hearts are fallen too because they are disconnected from the One who made us.
Our hearts yearn for the love that only God has for us. Through Jesus’ work on the cross, we can now realize that lost love and repair the broken heart. We often focus on things that can never fulfill what we need.
In Isaiah 61:1 (and Jesus quotes the verse in Luke 4:18) we see a picture of what Jesus does for us and our broken heart:
- The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.
We are the brokenhearted captives of darkness until we find our Savior, Jesus, and He sets us free.
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