'Lord, help me'
"Lord, help me" (Matthew 15:25)
Have you ever cried out to the Lord for help? Ever allow your heart to be smitten, broken, crushed, and bruised enough that your heart cries out, "Lord, help me"?
Many hearts are hard. Many close off their hearts for they fear as the painful past is too great, the cut too deep, and the bruise too fresh to live with gentle hearts. Other hearts are hard because they believe a lie that influences them away from the Good News of Christ. Often, we live in a mixture of both worlds. Some have taught that God is an angry God, an unmerciful God, a tyrant, and woodshed sending God. God disciplines but cruelty is not in his nature.
Jesus, the image of the Father is forever merciful, gentle, and kind. His heart is gentle for it knows the way of suffering, of heartbreak, and of brokenness. The example of Jesus and His call for us is to live with hearts gentle, kind, loving, and giving, to live with hearts that love so much that they are exposed. To have hearts that love enough that they take injury for the sake of the offender, a heart that understands that we are all offenders and that we all need healing. This is the heart of Jesus.
This is this heart that the lost long for and the heart the disciple of Christ adores. It is a heart that is shaped by the crucible of heartbreak, rejection, and suffering for righteousness sake. It is the death to our will, our desires, our hopes, our dreams, and our rights and surrendering. This is the cross we are to bare; but a cross we do not bare alone.
In Christ, you are never a lone for He is ever with you. And when you cry out for the darkness of circumstances or of the heart will at times guide you there then cry to Jesus and with Him find comfort and peace to persevere through the darkness and into His marvelous light.
Have you ever cried out to the Lord for help? Ever allow your heart to be smitten, broken, crushed, and bruised enough that your heart cries out, "Lord, help me"?
Many hearts are hard. Many close off their hearts for they fear as the painful past is too great, the cut too deep, and the bruise too fresh to live with gentle hearts. Other hearts are hard because they believe a lie that influences them away from the Good News of Christ. Often, we live in a mixture of both worlds. Some have taught that God is an angry God, an unmerciful God, a tyrant, and woodshed sending God. God disciplines but cruelty is not in his nature.
Jesus, the image of the Father is forever merciful, gentle, and kind. His heart is gentle for it knows the way of suffering, of heartbreak, and of brokenness. The example of Jesus and His call for us is to live with hearts gentle, kind, loving, and giving, to live with hearts that love so much that they are exposed. To have hearts that love enough that they take injury for the sake of the offender, a heart that understands that we are all offenders and that we all need healing. This is the heart of Jesus.
This is this heart that the lost long for and the heart the disciple of Christ adores. It is a heart that is shaped by the crucible of heartbreak, rejection, and suffering for righteousness sake. It is the death to our will, our desires, our hopes, our dreams, and our rights and surrendering. This is the cross we are to bare; but a cross we do not bare alone.
In Christ, you are never a lone for He is ever with you. And when you cry out for the darkness of circumstances or of the heart will at times guide you there then cry to Jesus and with Him find comfort and peace to persevere through the darkness and into His marvelous light.
posted by Michael Byrd at 7:06 AM
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