Trust God for Your Restoration

Many times we give our hearts to people without knowing what is going to happen and experience hurt after a piece of our heart is taken away. Today, I read someone's status that asked God to heal her heart. By Holy Spirit's direction, I just commented on her status, letting her know that only God can SuperNaturally restore it. I then wanted to see why Holy Spirit inclined me to chose the word restore, and not heal. I furthered this notion by looking up the definition of those words on Webster.com: To be healed is to cause a wound to be sound or healthy again. To be restored is to bring back to its original condition. Now you may ask, what is the difference?

When I was in high school and college, I played sports. While playing, I hurt my shoulder so bad that i had to sit out, go through therapy and then become cleared to participate again. Now my injury was so extreme that even today I have pain in my shoulder while doing certain things. Upon being cleared, the doctor gave me a list of things to do so that I could continue to strengthen my shoulder as well as some activities I should take caution about.  When you are healed, there may be some side effects that may come that causes you to feel the pain again.

On the contrary, with restoration, it turns something that was perfect, then damaged, back to perfection again. It doesn't have side effects, and pain will not come if something reminds it of it's past misery If you are restored, you go back to your original condition. Your heart is full and complete. There is nothing that can bring you back to your former pain. You may remember the past and what you were involved in, but the pain is not attached to it.

I encourage you to ask God to restore your heart from what was taken or given away. I promise you, He will do that and more! Just trust and cling to His word and His promise for your life!