Coração quebrantado
Deus está perto dos que têm o coração quebrantado. A Bíblia consola os aflitos: o sacrifício que Deus aceita é o espírito quebrantado e um coração contrito — jamais desprezará.
The Lord is close beside those who are broken-hearted; he saves those whose spirits are crushed.
The "sacrifices" that God wants are on the inside—the brokenness of repentance. God won’t reject a broken and sorrowful heart.
He heals the broken-hearted, and bandages the wounded.
My body and my mind may fail, but God is the foundation of my life. He is mine forever!
This is what the one who is high above all says, he who lives in eternity, whose name is holy: I live in a high and holy place, together with those who repent and who act humbly, restoring their spirits and encouraging them.
I made everything; that’s how it all came into existence, says the Lord. Those I look favorably on are humble and repentant, and they tremble when I speak.
The Spirit of the Lord God is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to announce liberation to the captives, to set the prisoners free, to declare the year of the Lord’s grace and the day of our God’s punishment, to comfort those who mourn. The Lord will give to everyone who mourns in Zion a crown instead of ashes on their head, the oil of happiness instead of mourning, clothes of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of integrity, planted by the Lord to reveal his glory.
"Blessed are those who recognize they are spiritually poor, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are those who are kind for they will own the whole world.
The kind of sorrow God wants us to have makes us change our minds and brings salvation. This kind of sorrow leaves no sense of regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. See what happened to you when you had this very same experience of sorrow that God wants. Remember how enthusiastic you became, how keen you were to defend yourselves, how angry you were at what had happened, how seriously you took it, how you longed to do right, how concerned you were, how you wanted justice to be done. In all of this you showed that you were sincere in wanting to make things right.
But he told me, "My grace is all you will need, for my power is effective in weakness." That’s why I happily boast about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me.