Kids today have so much more information than what I feel like we had when I was growing up. But maybe it is just that they have more avenues to get information than we had years ago.
Back in the 1970s, you either watched the news, read the paper, or went to the library to find out something that you wanted to know.
Today, we have the Alexa device. It is a voice-activated AI assistant.
The kids love to ask her to tell jokes, play music and videos and even answer random questions.
Because of this, I have now learned a ton of needless information that I never knew before. For instance, I now know that rubber bands last longer if they are stored in the refrigerator.
I know that women blink more than men.
I also know that a sloth can hold its breath longer than a dolphin, and that the octopus and squid have three hearts.
Those are all just random facts, but here is one fact that I learned that contained a biblical truth, and I’d like to share with you: The human heart weighs only 11-ounces.
Isn’t that incredible? That's just a little more than half a pound.
To put that into a visual comparison, think of a can of Coke weighing slightly more than the average heart.
I have never really thought about how such a small organ in our body was responsible for the huge job of keeping us alive.
How amazing!
Yet, for something so small, at times the heart can feel like it weighs a ton! That is 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)
You see, regardless of what weighed upon him, he knew that it was not by his strength that his heart would be lifted, but by God alone.
God is the only one who can conquer stress, defeat worry, resolve anxiety, and move our heavy hearts to heavy prayer.
Our God truly does hold the weight of the world in his hands, and if that be so, then what makes us think that 11 ounces worth of a heavy heart is too much for Him?
Trust Him today with your heart, for he promises to bind it up and heal it when it is broken, restore it, and give you rest. (Psalm 34:18 & 147:3; Matthew 11:28)
…and that is an absolute fact.
Dawn Hayes is mother of 4, grandmother to 3 and she and her husband pastor at New Hope Assembly of God in Senatobia. She has been writing “Sips from the Well” since 2015.
