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My Heart Grieves My heart grieves when I hear Christians say that Jesus loves the world but they believe He cannot deliver someone who is on the totally wrong path, whose sins are seen as too great to be bought with the blood He sacrificed on behalf of all mankind, that there is no way He could ever descend into hell and set those captives free, that His salvation is limited to those who realize it exists. See, the Jesus I know can reach places and hearts in hidden unmeasurable ways than the human mind can concieve. He never stops trying to woo our hearts in order to complete the good work on a creation God proclaimed as very good when He brought it all into being and took His rest. The blood of the lamb was most especially for the ones who are blind and cannot see the truth; who are lame and cannot follow the way, who are hopeless and hurting and lost and He will do anything in Heaven and earth to call them His own. We were bought with that very blood before we knew it had been shed or felt a special significance of what it means to be forgiven or even accepted that it had any real meaning for our lives at all. The price was already paid. So many people have passed from this life never having the joy of knowing Christ, never having heard or experienced His love; there are those who are not capable of understanding or die too young or passed before He came to show us the way. Doesn't God have a plan for all these who could not have the same experience we have, who did not get close enough to understand or accept what Christ's love is really all about, or were swayed by the things they were taught to believe which opposed the Lord's teaching. What seperates Christ's love from all other is that He loves like no other in a way not even one of us can comprehend. He willingly laid down His life for a world full of sinners that knew Him not, loved Him not and even the ones who condemned and crucified Him. He loved all men unto death, that says a whole lot to me; it says that there is nothing that will stop Him from proving His love in His commission to redeem the world. I want to love like that. Once there was a time when I thought I knew who wouldn't make it into the kingdom. I weighed them in my mind with sound reason. The man who and tried to kill me, how would I feel if he accepted Christ and I ran into him in Heaven? Could I face him, could I forgive him? And what about all those I loved so very much I could not bear to not have them sharing in the glory? And most of all what about me, I have sinned as much as anyone else in the world if God is so picky and choosy then for sure I couldn't go. Then I thought about how it would feel if even one of my didn't make it. How would it feel to lose just one of my ? I would do anything to know they were there even to lay down my own life to be sure they had that blessing. God's dispair over the loss of even one of His is no less than mine. He loves us all with equity. That means equally and with interest. The more forgiveness we require the more powerfully His glory and might is displayed in the simplicity of His forgiveness and salvation, the more interest He has invested in us; we become more valuable to Him just as the lost sheep of the Good Shepherd parable. The story about the sheep and the goats, now that's a good one. I often see the sheep being seperated from the goats and realize that the goats are those who simply will not judge all men with righteousness and equity the way God does. So many of them claim to be Christian but they see division and unworthiness and failure on God's part to succeed at redeeming all He created in love. See, none of us deserve the blessings of endless and immeasurable love God has bestowed upon us. He loved us before we loved Him. He kept loving us even though we ran from Him. He pursued us even after we denied Him, He kept on loving and forgiving until His love broke through as a tiny candle in the darkness and He keeps growing it until we are faced with a forest fire of light. That same love that began a good work in each and every one in God's creation will not withhold His love until He brings it all into completion in accomplishing His will. I know I am just rambling and a lot of folks out there think I am a naiive dreamer. But these are the things God has shown me since I rid myself of condemnation, judgement and unforgiveness in my heart and accepted that those who are condemned simply are hurting or don't know better. Had they stood in the perfect light of love as I did they would not be able to resist it. The only difference is I was too weak to believe for one second I had a chance to make it in this world without God. Because I was weak and had no understanding of my own and prayed the Lord to show me His way and not the ways of man, many things have been revealed to me that prophets of old have longed to see but could not - that is just what He told me when He revealed it so those are His words not mine. I saw the victory. I know the end. It just grieves my heart that others will not take a stand and declare total victory in Jesus so that He truly becomes all in all and God's will that none shall perish is brought to reality. God's love is not iffy, it is not fickle, it doesn't ever give up, it never gives in, it won't stop until it is all in all. Praise You Father for Your precious love, oh that men could know, truly know it and we all can become one as you and the are one. We are not seperated grains of sand, but a solid rock of creation which includes the righteous and the sinners alike. All that is belongs to You alone. I magnify Your Holy Name and may my tongue be among the first of every tongue to confess that as You have declared it every knee shall bow and every tongue declare that You alone are God and worthy of our Praise. AMEN |
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1/3/2007 6:32 am |
Nothing is impossible for our Father! Amen! Keep praying that our Lord will send more laborers into the harvest, as Jesus instructed for us to pray. God bless you.
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