The Beaten Heart

AnalogyObject Lesson★★★★

The heart, when broken, is sometimes like sweet gums and spices when beaten; for, as such cast their fragrant scent into the world, so the heart, when broken, casts its sweet scent forth to heaven. The incense, which was a type of prayer of old, was to be beaten or bruised, and so to be in the censer. The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet will come out.

The point

A broken heart, like beaten spices, releases spiritual fragrance; suffering produces intercessory prayer and redemptive beauty.

Audience

Adults

Tone

Poignant · Hopeful

To tell aloud

under a minute · 72 words

Subjects

Prayer Affliction Brokenness Suffering Redemption Sorrow

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