A Broken And Contrite Heart

-March 23, 2025-

Good morning beloved, happy Lord’s Day,

“The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves such as have a contrite spirit.”

(Psalm 34:18).

The quality that God most desires in His servants is a broken and contrite heart. He wants us to live holy and humble lives with hearts that are soft and sensitive toward Him.

David experienced this after he committed adultery with Bathsheba and the subsequent murder of her husband Uriah. The Lord brought him under great spiritual, physical, and emotion suffering as a result of his sins. He confessed his sins and God forgave him, showing him great mercy.

David wrote in Psalm 51:17, “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart—These, O God, You will not despise.”

The word contrite is defined as, “feeling or expressing remorse or penitence; affected by guilt over improper or objectionable behavior, actions, etc.” To us as believers, we don’t want to sin or displease the Lord in any way. when we do sin, we feel it very deeply in our hearts.

We should hate sin, especially the sin in our own lives. We should never take it lightly. God is always near to those with a broken and contrite heart. God is near to and pleased with when we confess and forsake sin.

Isaiah 66:2 says, “‘For all those things My hand has made. And all those things exist,” says the Lord. But on this one I will look: on Him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at My Word.’” God sees into our hearts and looks for genuine repentance and godly sorrow.

To be contrite is to be humble before Lord, seek Him with our whole heart, and keep short accounts with Him by immediately confessing our sins, repenting of the sin, and forsaking it. Revival breaks out when believers give themselves fully to Christ in full surrender to His will.

Let us be those who have a broken and contrite heart that is sensitive to sin and turns from it. Have a blessed day. Stay safe and healthy.

God cannot resist a contrite heart,

Dean