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Create in me a new heart

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Asking God to break our heart for what breaks His, brings us into a deeper sense of His presence. It transforms our focus away from our worldly experience to the way He sees us and our world.

God has always been interested in our heart. From early in the Bible teaching’s we are told to “love the Lord with all our heart.” Jeremiah tells us that God will give us a heart to love Him; that we will seek Him and find Him, when we seek Him with all our heart.

God tells us in the Psalms that what He desires is not a burnt offering or a monetary gift. He doesn’t need these things. What He desires is a sacrifice of praise, the offering of a clean heart.

King David says in Psalm 139:23-24 –
“Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”

In Psalm 51:10-12 he says –
“Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me from your presence
or take your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation
and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.”

Trying to please God with a corrupt self-seeking heart is like trying to drive a car with a gas tank full of sludge. It just doesn’t work.

In Hillsong’s worship song, “Hosanna,” the words of praise are followed by this plea:
“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’s cause
As I walk from earth into eternity.”

It is clear that if we want our praise to reach God’s heart, we are best to approach Him with a clean heart, a right conscience. It should be our daily prayer and our moment by moment walk with Him. God won’t leave you with a broken heart. Rather He will be faithful to mend it and give you a clean heart that seeks and finds Him, if that is your true request.

Break my heart for what breaks yours

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Probably, you have at some point in your life experienced a ‘broken heart,’ that feeling of deep despair and loss, whether momentary or long-lasting.

But have you ever ASKED for a broken heart? “Why in the world would I want to do that?” you might ask. Good question. After all, if we truly believe God wants the very best for us, why would we ask for a broken heart? Shouldn’t we ask for blessing instead? Well, yes you should. But have you ever asked yourself how MUCH blessing do you want? And what are you willing to endure to get it? Sometimes, blessing comes through an experience that breaks us of our earthly desires. It comes through a broken heart.

Is your heart broken when your children disobey and choose a path that is harmful for them? Do you think God’s heart was broken for a lost world? Do you think the heart of Jesus was broken for you when He put Himself on the cross for your sin and mine? What should our response be to such a sacrifice on our behalf? The apostle Paul answers, “I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.” (Philippians 3:10-11) In other words, “Give me the heart of Jesus for this world.” God is so interested in the condition of our hearts.

If we regard someone as a friend but then stay away from them when they are going through a difficult trial, what does that say about our friendship? If we say we want to love God and draw close to Him, we are saying we want to experience His heart. Are you willing to have your heart broken for the things that break’s God’s heart? How else will we draw closer to Him? How else will we join Him where he is already at work?

Let’s ask God to break our heart for what breaks His, so we can grow closer to Him and see ourselves and others through His eyes.