Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Hosanna

So i love the song "Hosanna" by Hillsong.  to be honest i don't know many people that don't love the song.  its great.  brooke fraser is amazing.  anyways, i was listening to this song today like i do most days and this time i decided to listen and think about my favorite part of the song:

"Heal my heart and make it clean,
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like you have loved me.

Break my heart for what breaks yours
Everything I am for your Kingdom cause
As i walk from earth into, eternity."

Oh man, there's just so much in there. its overwhelming.  I dont think i can go through all of it tonight so this may have to be a two part posting, i look forward to writing to be continued at the end.  haha.  I kinda want to be different and start with the second part instead of the first because it hits me the hardest.  Well thats not true.  I think im just going to pick the lines that hit me the hardest and go with it.  

"break my heart for what breaks yours"
What breaks God's heart?  Do i want my heart to break for what breaks God's heart really? Cuz i mean just thinking about it, i bet thats A. a lot of stuff and B. including stuff i dont like or care about.  If im just gonna be honest here.  So first, what does it mean for something to "break your heart."  Ok just googling that phrase gave me about 100 different songs.  I doubt theyre going for the same effect here as "break my heart for what breaks yours."  After looking at everything Ive basically come to the shocking conclusion that having my heart break for something is essentially my heart hurting so badly for something that it is broken, aching, no longer whole, basically you cant ignore a broken heart and whatever breaks it.   I imagine that this break would cause some sort of longing to fix the break and therefore move myself into action to help what breaks my heart.  So now that we've established kinda what breaking of the heart looks like, what breaks God's heart?  I'm pretty sure there's no place in the bible where it specifically states, God's heart breaks for... If I'm wrong please let me know.  What i can say though is that I'm pretty sure that God's heart breaks for those who don't know him, amongst other things. I think this is the biggest thing and the point this song is trying to get across.  There are days that i think i could say yes, my heart breaks for those who don't know God.  But if that were true, my heart wouldnt "break" for like five minutes and then be fine for the next 5 weeks.  Is it important to me? yes.  does it break my heart that people don't know the Lord? not nearly as much as it should.  I think its something i'm growing in though.  I know Gods plan for my life has a lot to do with missions, evangelism that sort of thing and im even a part of that in school right now being an outreach leader.  I guess what im saying is that i wish my heart broke for people who dont know God.  man this hits so close to home, having so many friends who dont truly know christ and living the middle of downtown charleston with thousands of students who act like they could care less.   its just something that should hit me harder then it does, and its something i want to keep praying for.  For God to break my heart for those who don't know him, especially those on my campus.  I've wasted two years of college, I don't want to waste two more.  I also wish i could say that everything I am is for God's kingdom.  For now i really need to sleep so ill be signing off for now.  Night night. 

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