But there is a great difference between Adam’s sin and God’s gracious gift. For the sin of this one man, Adam, brought death to many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of forgiveness to many through this other man, Jesus Christ.
-Romans 5:15
Monday, March 12, 2012
03/12/12
When I pray for Your heart. When I ask that you break my heart for what breaks Yours it fully opens my emotions. Suddenly news about strangers stirs in me strong feelings of pain, anger, and grief. My eyes begin to open to the weight of every human's glory. To the realization that every human is my brother or sister, they are all broken, and they are all loved relentlessly and furiously by You.
The cure to racism, sexism, ageism, and prejudice is empathy.
If everyone saw everyone as their family we would treat everyone differently. Life is all about perspective. The broader my perspective the better I become. Help me view everyone as my family. Help me view everywhere as my country.
Satan loves to draw these arbitrary lines in my life. Different families, different countries, different cultures, different denominations, instead of focusing on the similarities I am caught focusing on the differences.
If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it
-1 Corinthians 12:26
Jesus, my brothers are being abducted and forced to become child soldiers. My sisters are being raped and forced in to sex slavery. As my heart aches and turns within me over the though of this; I cannot imagine the cry of Your heart as You see Your children kidnapping Your children. As they suffer I must suffer beside them.
Abba this world is so broken. My heart cries out the prayer You taught us
May your Kingdom come soon.
May your will be done on earth,
as it is in heaven.
We need Your kingdom to come, we need You! If we are the body Why aren't Your arms reaching? Why aren't Your hands healing? Why aren't Your words teaching? I pray that Your Spirit be dumped out on this country that my eyes would see through Your lens. Don't let the heart of me grow hard because suffering isn't happening to my immediate family. Every human is my immediate family. The world isn't broken, my family is broken. My brothers and sisters are hurting. Not just sleeping on the streets of Columbus not just in the leper colony in Zambia, not just the child soldiers in Uganda, not just the orphans in Haiti, not just the imprisoned in China, not just the forgotten in India, but everywhere. Lord You hear the cries of my family and you love them dearly.
Show me what part of the body I am and put me just where You want me.
Your Great Name - Natalie Grant