We don’t often think of God as a heartbreaker. He is
love. In His presence is fullness of
joy. He binds up the broken hearted! So how could God, or why would He, break
my heart? Is it even possible that God would ‘cause’ me to experience sorrow? Sure it is! The bible even says in 2
Corinthians 7:10 “Godly sorrow worketh repentance.”
Certainly God’s heart breaks for lost humanity. Genesis 6:6 tells
us that it repented God, or grieved Him, that He created men. (It wasn’t that He
made a mistake, but that we brought sorrow into His life.) Jesus looked out over the city of Jerusalem
and mourned saying, “Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and
stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children
together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not
willing.”
So, here is a point I want to make: If God’s heart breaks for lost humanity, why doesn’t ours? We have been redeemed from eternal damnation!
Why then are we so unconcerned with those who are still on the way to Hell?
I have often asked God to allow me to feel what He feels. I
have found on occasion, that I cannot handle it. I don’t know if you have ever experienced it,
or not, but I am experiencing it to a certain degree even now as I write this,
and I have experienced it several times before.
I honestly believe that God will sometimes allow us to experience what
breaks His heart to galvanize us to His purpose.
Some of you will remember, I recently stood before the
congregation unable to speak through the anguish I was experiencing on behalf
of abandoned children in Brazil. We need
our hearts broken! Not just for Brazil, or for Uganda, or Pakistan or
Israel or even... America, but our hearts should be groaning within us because
of the pain in God’s heart for His lost world.
We sing a song in worship sometimes that says, “(Lord) break
my heart for what breaks yours.” Do we really want it though? Because, it’s far easier to just be satisfied
with what God has done for us, and just let the rest of the world go to hell.
Oh, God shake us! Wake your church to the cry of your heart!
If our hearts need to break so that we might feel Your grief for the lost, then
let us experience heartbreak! Let Godly sorrow bring us to repentance for our
lack of concern for those around us! For
Lord, if we will partake of Your glory, should we not also partake in Your
suffering? Save this region Lord, and
use us to do it!
