When the Heart Hurts

Can I share my heart today?  My heart hurts, it hurts for so many folks.  It hurts for those that have lost loved ones, it hurts for those sitting by the bedside of someone sick with a doctor saying 'there is no hope'.  It hurts for those that are lost and have no hope in Jesus.  At least those hurting that know Jesus, they have a comforter, but those that don't know Him, they don't have that.


Then there are those that know Him but have turned their back.  I believe that hurt is even worse, deep down you know what will help but you have moved so far away that you doubt you can get back.  You know there is hope, yet you feel hopeless.  You may be angry at God or just disassociated, but whatever the reason, you do not have that closeness that brings His peace and comfort.


I wish there was a way for folks to see the lessons we have learned and not have learn them the hard way but often we are not willing to look at the results of others and realize that will be our results as well if we take the same path.  We believe we are invincible.  We will be the exception.  Yet we aren't.  We go down that path that satan has tricked us into believing is a 'better way' and we meet the same disillusionment and heartache that the last person did.


But today can be different, you are the one that can change it.  You can realize that if you don't know Christ, you really know nothing.  You may be educated but you have no wisdom.  You may have a degree but you lack the most important title of all 'His child'.


I look at those going down a road I have walked and fallen on and I want to caught them, to save them.  But all I can do is try to warn them.  For it to have any affect, they must listen.  My task is to try to warn and pray.  I can't make them listen.  I can't force the decision.  That's hard for me, I'm a fixer. 


As we are nearing Christmas, I pray that you will listen to the message of the Christ child.  I pray that you will listen to those warning of things that will harm you.  I pray that you will begin the relationship with Christ or return to it. 


Today I pray, tomorrow I'll pray too.  My prayer will be for all to learn of His grace too.