Jar of Hearts

Satan's attacks are legit. I know it's cliched but everyday is a battle. Sadly we don't recognize half the time that a war is going on. We become so engulfed in a new technology or in the latest fashion or video game or even some crush. Satan is a sly one and he'll work his way in.

Now I doubt that "Jar of Hearts" by Christina Perri is in reference to a sense of defeat from one of Satan's tricks. No it is probably more along the lines of purging herself of a man who played tricks with her heart strings. Is that not how Satan intrudes in our relationship with God though? He meddles with something that's not his, causing a lot of pain, suffering, confusion and distrust.
    
"Who do you think you are/ running 'round leavin' scars/ collecting your jar of hearts/ tearing love apart?" Satan gives himself the right to meddle with our relationship with God. Start with his fall from Heaven. In a nut shell Satan wanted more praise, honor, glory and power. He became greedy and that got him kicked out. To get back at God he makes it his mission to pull souls out of eternal bliss and into eternal despair in an absence of God otherwise known as Hell. Satan's first collected hearts were Adam and Eve's. 

Picture the beginning of Genesis. Adam and Eve are walking with God, conversing, doing his will to till and protect the garden. The light was in their eyes. Then Satan comes in the form of a serpent-like creature, tempting Eve as Adam sits off to the side. What makes Satan feel like he has the right to intervene? That I don't know, but he broke them of their communion with God, tearing love apart. It killed them, and humanity. Since then we've persistently fought to reach God, to be fully reconciled with our Father.

Jesus came to heal our broken hearts. We've grown so strong because of him, the God-Man, the Word Incarnate. Without him we couldn't tell Satan to not come back for us. With out Christ dying and rising again we wouldn't be capable of finding our way into Heaven. Let's take comfort in knowing we are in God's presence; in knowing he is always at our side.

Knowing this why don't we just scream at Satan to not come back at all? We constantly strive to be strong to resist his temptation. We constantly strive to place our broken hearts in God's hands. So do it!

Let Satan "catch a cold from the ice inside [his] soul." Move on in your relationship with God. Go to confession (if your Catholic). Take it as a chance to ask for forgiveness. Take it as a chance to no longer sing this song. Be beyond the pain of having a broken heart.


-Matt