Is being completely open to the Spirit of God and recognizing our dependence on God for all that we have and are.Is Perfect submission to our Heavenly Father.He said that having a broken heart and a contrite spirit: It all makes sense now! This new definition also made clear the things I had been studying in a talk entitled “ Broken Heart and A Contrite Spirit by Bruce D. Neither did they receive any unto baptism save they came forth with a broken submissive, trained heart and a contrite repentant, penitent spirit, and witnessed unto the church that they truly repented of all their sins. Now substitute the new found meanings in the scripture for the original words. We have a desire to repent quickly when we have done something wrong.īoth of these definitions seemed to fit so well with the scripture I quoted above from Moroni. If we have a submissive, tamed, trained heart then we also should have a repentant, penitent spirit. This fit perfectly with having a broken heart. So, to me, contrite means being remorseful when we have done somethings wrong, we feel truly sorry and we have a desire to repent. Filled with a sense of guilt and the desire for atonement penitent. A horse can finally fulfill its purpose once it is controlled and doing the bidding of his master, and only when we are submissive to our Savior can we do His will and fulfill the purposes He has for us. He expects us to come with a submissive, tamed heart! Yes! A heart that is trained or broken like we train or break a horse. With that one definition it all made sense! God doesn’t expect us to come to him with a broken, out of order heart. And then I got to the definition that made everything clear!īroken: “Tamed, trained, or reduced to submission: The horse was broken to the saddle.” While I know that we can bring our weakened, fragmented, not working parts to Christ and He will heal us, it didn’t seem right that a heart that is out of order and not working properly would be a requirement of baptism. These definitions still didn’t sound right. I found, as I had expected, definitions like: reduced to fragments fragmented, ruptured torn, not functioning properly, out of working order, fragmentary or incomplete. We’ll start with the word broken because it is listed first. I thought I knew what the word broken meant, and I knew I didn’t have a clear understanding of the word contrite. I decided to look up the words broken and contrite in the dictionary, because that’s almost always where I start. I was picturing someone being in the depths of despair over the loss of someone they loved, but that doesn’t sound like the type of broken heart that was expected before people could be baptized in Moroni 6:2 when it says: “Neither did they receive any unto baptism save they came forth with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, and witnessed unto the church that they truly repented of all their sins.” We know that children as young as 8 years old can be baptized so having someone break your heart and leave your heart shattered in pieces doesn’t seem consistent with a requirement to be baptized, nor does it seem to go hand in hand with repentance. To me, up to this point, having a broken heart meant that someone you deeply loved had done something to hurt you and then your heart was broken or shattered. I thought about what having a broken heart and contrite spirit means. The topic was: “Having a Broken Heart and a Contrite Spirit.” The Spirit told me to stop, and to take time to study and learn some more about the topic. I was skimming over my scripture journal a few days ago, reviewing some of the things the Lord has taught me in the last few months, and I came to a topic that I felt like I still didn’t understand. What Does It Mean to Have a Broken Heart and a Contrite Spirit?
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