Did you know that the human heart weighs only 11 ounces? That's just a little more than half a pound. A can of Coke weighs slightly more than the average heart.
For something so small, at times it can feel like it weighs a ton. It's called having a "heavy heart." Maybe you have experienced that before?
Those times when you are so grieved about something that you feel as if your heart were about to break from sadness and worry. It's the most difficult thing to overcome because when we care about someone or something, it's a natural reaction to "take it to heart."
Our heart is at the very core of our physical life as well as our spiritual life. When we are "heavy-hearted" it affects everything.
King David struggled with a heavy heart so much but learned that "My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." (Psalm 73:26)
Some people struggle to understand that verse, including me at times, because when we are in the throws of heartache, strength is the last thing that we "feel." But the miraculous thing about God is that He doesn't stop working in our life just because we can't "feel" Him.
What He desires to do and has promised to do in His word, he will do. "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds." (Psalm 147:3)
To fully comprehend the word Strength concerning God in our life, we need to understand its meaning. Strength is "The substance to withstand great force or pressure." So, when His word says that He is the strength of our heart, it actually means that God is the substance that withstands any force or pressure directed upon our hearts.
When we allow Him to, he takes the hurt, the pain, the disappointment, the struggle, the worry, the fear, and anything else weighing upon us, and releases that weight from us as He bears it upon Himself.
Regardless of what weighed upon King David, he knew that it was not by his strength that his heart would be lifted up, but by God alone. Throughout the Book of Psalms, you can see him crying out to God for help at certain times of his life, and time and time again, God intervened.
You can see David's praise to God as well for He is the only one who can conquer stress, defeat worry, resolve anxiety, and move our heavy hearts to heavy prayer.
If we know and understand that our God holds the weight of the world in his hands, what makes us think that 11 ounces worth of a heavy heart is too much for him? Maybe today is the day to make a change, and show the Devil not only who has your back, but who really has your heart!
