I am sure most of you have heard the song, "Give Me Your Eyes", by Brandon Heath. It is a very good song about seeing people through their outer layers. I have been wanting to do this song for my small group for some time, so, I have been spending a lot of time playing, singing, and practicing.
So, today, as I sat there playing it, usually at the end of a song (when I am alone) I tend to just play the chords with my eyes shut, listening to Him, and singing in prayer to Him. As I prayed for His eyes, His heart, His arms, for Him to break my heart for what breaks His, I was able to dig deeper.
I will have to say, it had part to do with a YouTube video I found too from a youth group that did this song and put posters on people. What a great video. But I thought a bit deeper.
When you are out and about, you know those people who irritate you to the core? The nicely dressed lady who is pushy and grouchy at the check out line, The man who seems to be somewhere else and not paying attention, The teen who is acting out obviously seeking attention, or the child who lags behind his parent slowing you down. You know these people. I am sure there are different ones in your life, but we all have them, I am sure we have all been them.
So, here is the thought.
What if the nicely dressed lady is trying to look put together, trying to be in control because her life is out of control, maybe she is losing her husband, her home, her life as she knows it.
What if that man is out of it because he lost his job, maybe he is the husband to the wife above.
What if that teen is seeking attention as a last attempt for anyone to notice as they have decided to end their life.
What if that child lagging is because this child is alone, feeling lonely all the time.
If you think about it, when you are not at your best, don't you tend to act like you are on top of it? My prayer for myself is that I would continue to pray for the heart of Jesus. Lately, the more I pray, the more I find myself saddened by the world but I have to remember Hope. He is our Hope. Maybe, just maybe, we need to share this Hope we have, with those people, all those people.
I was reading in Acts 10 today and reading about Peter's vision. He woke from it saying "Lord, I would never eat of anything unclean." And in verse 15, "And a voice spoke to him again the second time, "what God has cleansed you must not call common." And if you continue reading, He was meaning to speak to the Gentiles, a people who they thought were unclean.
Isn't that us? People who are richer than us, poorer than us, druggies, drunks, single moms, single dads, married, teens, children, elderly, a different race, chubby, thin, the list goes on an on. If they are different, do we think they are un-savable? Or maybe God wouldn't use us to share with them. Wrong!
Oh Lord, please, change the error in my thinking and Please God, Please, give me the heart of Jesus!!!!
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