A Glimpse of God's Heart

     For me, one of the greatest things of this life is to get a glimpse of God's heart.  Every glimpse I get helps me to know and see my heavenly Father in a new, better way.  I'm always asking Him to show me what's on His heart, I want to see the world and his people, through the eyes of His heart.  And o, let me tell you it's a beautiful thing to see with the eye's of Christ.

    Recently he showed me something.  He told me to read in Jeremiah.  If you have ever read Jeremiah and really understood it you would begin to see right away that God was sharing a piece of His heart through this book.  This book has taught me so much over the last six months.  At the beginning of my DTS one of the things that got my attention and spoke to me was that I affect God, the choices I make, the things I say, all have an affect on God.  He doesn't just have one emotion all the time.  Since I learned that and my eyes were opened to God's heart, God has used Jeremiah a lot when he speaks to me.

    But the most recent thing he showed me through this book was that he has this ache in his heart for all the people who know that he is there but choose to follow after the things of this world.  He has this want for those who know of Him, to know Him, personally.  As I was reading through some of Jeremiah, faces started to go through my mind, so many faces.  Faces of people I love, people close to my heart, that know of God, but choose to walk from getting to know Him.. I can't begin to described the ache inside of my heart.  So many lost people and God wants them all, no matter what they've done, He aches for them.  As I read more I began to feel, rejection.  O, what a terrible feeling to feel.  God has been trying and trying to get them to turn from their sinful ways and follow Him, but instead of choosing Him, they choose the ways of this world.  And the sting of rejection comes painfully.
 
     At first I began to question why God would show me this, but then, as I started to have this ache inside of my heart for the same thing.. an ache for those people who's faces flooded my mind.  I understood why he told me, He knew I would be moved by it.  He knew that I would see those around me who have rejected Him.  And He trusted me, knowing that I would want to bring change and not just let this ache pass.

     To see a bit of God's heart is a beautiful thing, but to know that he trusts me enough to share His heart with me, that means so much more..