Thursday, January 7, 2016

Heart broken?

Jeremiah 8:  4 - 5
“You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: When men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return?
Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return…

Can I ask you a hard spiritual question this morning?
What breaks your heart anymore, as it has to do with the things of God?

Jeremiah is known as the… “weeping prophet”.
He had good reason to cry, and this Pastor can relate.

Do you know what broke Jeremiah’s heart? The people in his day continually turned away from God.
They actually had no desire to return to God’s protective covering, and they refused to repent.

Of all people, the Hebrew children should have known better.
Shouldn’t the people of the church know better?

Jesus said in Luke 5: 32“I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
One of the great problems of the church of Christ in America, is that we know all about confession, but rarely practice repentance.

One of the hardest things a Pastor has to do, is to allow someone to go, even while knowing they will most likely never return.
It actually breaks my heart.

Have you ever asked God to break your heart, for the things that break His? Take a moment today, and do that while you listen to this song…

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