Break My Heart With What Breaks Yours
In Exodus 3:7-10 God called out to Moses because He heard the cry of the oppressed people. “The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” Now, let’s not forget that Moses had 40 years of training in the wilderness; God had prepared him for the task. So what am I saying? Your trials are preparation for the future to respond to His call on your life; when your heart is broken with what breaks His.
Today, as we reflect on the entire scope of Moses life (from birth until then), and look around at the plight of our communities we should all be heartbroken as God. And God is calling each and every one of us to be ‘go!’ and become ‘Modern day Moses.’ What is your current affliction or test? How long will it last? The Good News (the Gospel) is that our present affliction is to prepare us for this call from God. No matter what we have done or who we have become. God has been preparing us all for the call, i.e. if we would all drown out the other voices (drugs, sex, finances, relationships….LIFE), slow down, and listen to His still quiet voice.
The blog title speaks for itself. All of us regardless of our present pain that we mask in various ways should feel the pain of our immediate communities. Hence, we ask God to ‘Break our hearts with what breaks His’. What is breaking God’s heart? Well, look around. The lifestyles of the rich and famous on one end, and the lifestyles of the poor and the needy on the other end of the spectrum. We are living in a selfish communities that are much further from God and the truth, unlike previous generations. Addictions, crime, run-down communities just to name a few. And social media is reaping havoc, having a field day as we eagerly buy into their inhumane behaviors with an insatiable frenzy. Society has gone crazy when we can applaud the recording of the abuse of a 5 year old child instead of intervening on the child’s’ behalf just to get likes. Ouuch!!!!
Well if we are not feeling the pain of others, and just standing by looking on, who will intervene when it is our turn? The solution is simple, ‘less of me, more of others.’ Feel God’s pain in others.
To my addiction family and audience who are still struggling to have the obsession lifted, step out boldly and make that ‘leap of faith’ without excuses and grow up. The Apostle Paul states in 1 Corinthians 13:11 “When I was a child, I spoke, thought, and reasoned in childlike ways as we all do. But when I became a man, I left my childish ways behind.” And this process starts with a willingness to fully surrender to God. Unless we do so, we will not feel the pain of others because we will remain focused on ourselves. Like the Apostle Paul, I urge you brethren/sisthren to respond to God’s request and feel His pain. Only then can we fully experience the process of true transformation to remove the obsession.
Good morning!
Have a Blessed day in the Lord. You deserve it.
Until then, ‘nothing changes if nothing changes’ and ‘the same person will always use’.
From the desk of Andy Ansola