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."