A heart in anguish

01/17/2019

Why do I feel the weight of those who don't know you?

Why do I care so deeply concerning their souls?

Why does my heart weep for those who reject you?

Why do I feel like the archetype who speaks the truth no one listens to

Until it is too late...

Oh, that I could reveal to them what I know!

That I could plug my heart to theirs

And like a defibrillator, shock the dead hearts back to life

Like Ezekiel, call the dead bones back to life

Like You, Christ Jesus, call the Lazaruses back to life.

It is you who gives life and life more abundantly

I am reminded that you are moving

Tugging on the hearts of people

To believe even as they cannot see

To step onto the deep waters because your hands are outstretched

Ready to hold and to guide

To turn away from sin

As your loving words remind us,

"Never will I leave you nor forsake you"

You whisper words of love to the brokenhearted and the grieving

Though they may not perceive it

Though they may choose to ignore it

My heart is in anguish because your heart is in anguish

I feel for you just as much as you feel for us

Why do we, the undeserving, reject the love offering that you give freely?

The saving of an entire being

A lifetime of happiness and great joy

With the one to whom the idea of life is due

To the Creator

The manufacturer of hearts and being

The lover of His creation

The die-hard romantic

Who dies for the sake of His loves

And resurrects triumphantly overcoming the limitations

That used to taunt us and remind us only of how far we can go

But the Savior says, "there is so much further that we can go!"

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."