A Prayer of Hope and Comfort for Those without a Valentine - Your Daily Prayer - February 10

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Sadly, heartbreak is an emotion all too many of us are familiar with. Unfortunately, it’s one felt by countless individuals, especially when Valentine’s Day rolls around each year and many find themselves alone and unprepared for the sadness and hopelessness it stirs up within them.

As well, heartache comes in various ways, including the loss of a spouse or romantic interest through death, divorce, or unfaithfulness. Some experience it through the sorrow of a love never being returned, achieved, or found.

Heartache is a very real emotion, a too common experience for many in the world today, and it seems especially intensified on days where it seems love is being celebrated by everyone but them.

Likewise, the piercing loss, pain, and sorrow of the heart is such a unique, personal experience for each individual facing it--a grief so deep, it’s often inexpressible through words to truly express the depth and level experienced.

Who Is Able to Mend Our Broken Hearts?

A broken heart can’t be bandaged and mended with stitches or staples, medicated, or truly treated by human hands, but takes divine intervention to relieve the suffering.

When it comes to matters and conditions of the heart, they run deep within us, and God is the only one who truly understands the depth of our heart’s brokenness and pain. He is also the only one who is able to make it whole again.

Choosing to Believe God Cares for Us

Believing no one can really help us in our brokenness often leads us to push God away. When we do, the enemy of our souls goes to work to convince us that God is against us and is even somehow responsible for causing the sorrow to happen in our lives.

Lying to us about the love of God is one of the devil’s specialties, especially when it comes to pointing fingers at Him and His character. But Romans 8:31 reassures us that He is for us. “What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”

Rather than following the enemy of our souls’ leading to turn away and point fingers at God, blaming Him for our sorrow, we want to recognize that He is the first one to come and offer us His comfort and compassion.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 describes, “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”

Receive God’s Nearness

Although God tells us He is near to us, especially in our brokenness, we often believe God is far away from us during times of heartfelt distress and suffering, but in truth, He is very near. Psalm 145:18 reminds us how, “The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth.”

So when we start finding ourselves doubting God’s closeness, Ephesians 2:13 explains why we can be assured He is near. “But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.”

God is the one to turn to with our heartache, because He is near and is able to renew and restore our broken hearts. As Psalm 34:18 describes, “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”

Let’s Pray:

Dear Father,

As Valentine’s Day often emphasizes our sorrow of not having a Valentine to celebrate and spend time with, open our hearts to receive the love You give us as more than enough.

Help us to receive the hope and comfort that comes from You. Let Your love and nearness mend and make our hearts anew, knowing that You are our forever Valentine.

Lead us to reach out in love to those around us who may also be facing heartache and sorrow on Valentine’s Day. Let Your love flow through us to bring hope and comfort to them.

In Jesus’ name, Amen

Image Credit: Unsplash Kelly Sikkema

Lynette Kittle is married with four daughters. She enjoys writing about faith, marriage, parenting, relationships, and life. Her writing has been published by Focus on the Family, Decision, Today’s Christian Woman, kirkcameron.com, Ungrind.org, StartMarriageRight.com, and more. She has a M.A. in Communication from Regent University and serves as associate producer for Soul Check TV.

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