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.