Have you asked God these questions yet? What's our world doing to your heart, God? Have you ever asked God to give you His grief? Or what burdens His heart? Have you ever dared to ask Jesus to share what makes Him grieve with you? Do you even want to know!?
I have prayed for years and years to Jesus to make me more like Him. But I never considered sharing in His burdens for the world, or standing up for righteousness or justice, or loving someone who I've never met so much that I want to share Jesus with them....until more recently.
It's not that I haven't been following Jesus, I just realized that He wants me to ask Him for what stirs His heart....He wants me to have His heart. What breaks His heart should break mine. What brings His heart joy, should bring my heart joy.
Jesus recently has awakened me to actions I need to take that I never realized I should have taken! Why, haven't I ever realized this before! What's the church of America doing wrong that so many do not have a deep desire to know God's heart or live for Him. We, Christians, have allowed ourselves to become content with watered down Americanized Christianity. How can sparks catch fire from a church whose soaking wet? I see my God being mocked openly and spit upon and cursed. Shouldn't this grieve us to our knees?! What can we do God? Why do so many hate you? Yet, this does not seem to phase us anymore. We allow evil and injustice to prevail--we just want to protect our ourselves and live as far away from the evil people--not try to live among them and spread goodness and Jesus, truth and love.
Just this past half year plus we have allowed walls to be built between us (Christians). The walls may not be made of bricks but of our own selfish opinions and a piece of cloth. Nonetheless, it's there separating us from loving each other how God intended us to love each other. We don't visit the sick or elderly anymore or very rarely....maybe through a window or carefully distanced....Did you know that true religion Jesus states is visiting the sick and elderly? If I had to visit God socially distant or through a window....I'd feel so separated....I'd truly think I was in hell because I'd want to be close to Him!! I'm so thankful that He lives in my heart and that no one can take Him out! I need Him! I need Him so much!
Why have we allowed so much? Little by little we have let more evil in.....little by little we have lost our first Love.....little by little we have become more and more selfish...
Can I take a stab at that question? Why do we allow so much... We don't let God burden us with what breaks His heart! Ask God now.....God, what burdens your heart? Make it burden mine too. Only please hold back some of the weight for if you were to give me everything that burdens and breaks your heart, my heart would surely stop beating from the sheer weight of your grief and you'd shatter it completely.
I was wrestling with the idea....Can I really ask God to burden me with what burdens Him? I can't even handle what burdens me...or another human for that matter! How can I ask such a request? Then God said to my heart...Remember Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. He was so overwhelmed with sorrow and grief to the point of sweat drops of blood...And Jesus said, "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death!" burdened by the task of what He had to do to save me and the world from sin. He asked his disciples to sit near him and pray! To share in His burden! Do you know what they did? They fell asleep! Not once but twice Jesus asks them to stay awake and help bear His burden and sorrow, but they always fell asleep! These were His disciples!!!!....men who swore to die for Him unable to even stay awake and pray for Him! Then the third time Jesus wakes His disciples...it's too late....too late for His disciples to help bear His burden for His betrayer (Judas) came with a crowd to eventually take Him to the cross. Are we so asleep today that we can't stay awake with Jesus and help bear His burdens? That we can't desire do do even more for Him by asking Him, Lord what do you want me to do? How can I share in what grieves you? The disciples didn't know that Jesus would be taken away to His death.....if they had, they would have stayed awake I believe. We know that Jesus is coming soon! He has said this!! He has warned us a long time ago! How much closer it is now than it was then! Yes, I think the least we can do is ask Jesus to give us the burdens of His heart and when we ask Him for more of His heart, He will share with us so much that we will be shocked and encouraged in a way we have never been before!
Please, Please Lord awaken me to what your heart desires of me! Don't let me fall asleep! Don't let me waste my time here for You! Amen!
