Rebuilding The Heart: Piece By Piece
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In order to start the cleansing of our heart we must be aware of any bitterness and resentment we have within us that has been deeply rooted from the past. When we have bitterness in our hearts it is easy for others to recognize it.
One of the things I can’t help but notice each and every Sunday is the bitterness that can easily be seen on the faces of many of the adults in church. Some of them look like they hate being there. I can’t understand why they don’t carry themselves in a more positive light. After all, most of them claim to be born again Christians. No wonder some visitors don’t come back. Who want to look like an old “sour puss”? If that’s the way a Christian looks and feels, many will just turn and run and never be interested in what we have.
Gandhi once said, “I like your Christ, but I don’t like your Christians.” When I first heard that quote I was hurt and offended. But just look at the way many so called Christians present themselves. We should be the happiest people on earth.
We have been chosen to be a part of Almighty God’s family. I don’t know about you, but that excites me! That fires me up!
Are you presently harboring any bitterness or resentment in your heart? Does a certain incident or person come in your thoughts that causes you pain or hurt and makes your blood pressure rise? If there is, then you have probably allowed bitterness to take root in your heart.
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About the Book
Yes, that’s right; the picture above is a human heart. No, this is not going to be a biology lesson. The only talk about the physical part of the heart will be right here in the introduction. I’m sure that most of you are aware that heart failure is the number one cause of death in
The heart is a very strong muscle. Touch your chest and feel its rhythm, pulsating, hour after hour, day and night, thirty-six million beats each year, year after year, asleep or awake, pumping your blood through more than six-thousand miles of veins, arteries, and tubing…pumping more than six hundred thousand gallons of blood each year. However, as I have already stated, that’s not what this book is all about.
This book is about the Rebuilding of the Heart. The broken, bitter, unforgiving heart of many people today who have lost hope that they will ever recover, has caused us to lose our joy and happiness we once had or were looking forward to having. Then there are those who thought that money and fame was the way to a happy life, but when they reached that goal, they were still miserable and without peace or joy.
There are so many hearts out there today that are also spiritually dead. This book will help you repair that old heart and get you to that place God intended for you to be. You see, in order to reach our goal of peace and happiness, we must understand what God intended for our hearts to be from the beginning. If the heart were not so important to God, He probably would not have included it so often in His word. The heart is mentioned 975 times in the Bible.
In order to rid our hearts of un-forgiveness and bitterness, we must have a burning desire to have a heart that is pure, and shows kindness, love, forgiveness and hope to everyone we come in contact with. If we are to seek this kind of heart then we must learn the power of prayer, and we must learn to accept God’s gift of grace and mercy. Daily worship and praise to our Creator is the only way to mend a broken heart. The Truth will set you free. Let’s begin!
About the Author
Coach Ron Link has been a basketball coach and teacher at the high school, junior college and the NCAA Division I levels for thirty-eight years. He has coached and been guest speaker in summer camps and clinics across the south. He is know most for his optimism and enthusiasm, and is also affectionately called the “Quote Man” by many of his former students and players.
His ability to motivate and inspire young people and help them in the “game of life” has caused his teams to come out on top wherever he coaches and teaches. He has taken his teams to state and national tournaments many times, and was selected to coach the Atlanta Team in the famous “Boston Shootout”, which is a nationally recognize tournament of major cities across America. His Atlanta Team won the “Boston Shootout” in 1979, 1983, 1986, 1987, and 1988.
In his thirty-eight years of coaching he has been selected the “Coach of the Year” seventeen times, and three of them have been these past four years. In 2002-2004 Coach Link had the highest winning percentage in the state of
Coach Link is a “born again” Christian as he accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior when he was twelve years old. He says that his greatest thrill is not in his successes but in seeing others excel in their efforts as students or athletes. He says his greatest honor was being accepted in “God’s Hall of Fame.”
Coach Link’s major goal in life is to tell others what Christ means to him. He uses the phrase “Our Mission is Transition” for his basketball teams to get up and down the floor, and it is used in his summer camps to get young people from “lost” to “saved”.
Coach Link has been married to Cathy Link for twenty-eight years and they have one son