Break my heart for what breaks Yours

"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" (Brooke Fraser, Hosanna lyrics by Hillsong)

“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” (James 1:27NIV)

"Open up my eyes to the things unseen"

How would you react when you see the poor is treated badly? How would you react when you see the disable people been pushed around? How would you react when you see the cry of the orphanage and widows been ignored?

Indifferent? Unresponsive? Whatever?

Or does your heart beat a little faster… or does your eyebrow rise like Bruce Lee ready to fight… or maybe your temperature go up a degree or two?

Nope? Well, try this – how about instead of somebody else who is been exploited, imagine that your own family member being exploited. Imagine your parent is treated badly. Imagine your children been pushed around. Imagine your love ones’ cry is been ignored. Now, how would you respond to that?

"Break my heart for what breaks Yours"

Due to lack of food stocks and oppressed by the Persian; the Hebrew were forced to mortgage their properties and to sell themselves even also their own family members into slavery in order to pay their debt. Do you know how does Nehemiah respond? “When I heard their complaints, I was very angry.” (Nehemiah 5:6NLT) Almost all Bible translations translated Nehemiah as being “very angry”.

Angry that leads to positive actions, “I spoke out…” (5:7); “…I called a public meeting to deal with the problem.” (5:7); “Then I pressed further…” (5:9); “I called the priests and made the nobles and officials formally vow to do what they had promised” (5:12); “The whole assembly responded… praised the LORD… people did what they had promised.” (5:13)

You may not have great influence like Nehemiah, you may short of your resources to help others, you might thing that you’re nobody but you have equal responsibility to stand up for the injustice – simply because you’re a Christian. An obedience Christ follower is equips to contribute small or average or great task at hand. When you do the right things based on the Word of God, Christ will empowered you with the Holy Spirit. He’ll provide you the exact needs to work it out.

On our way to watch movie Johnny English, my friend and colleague, Peter Paris said a very profound words. He said, “The signs of a person who really know Christ can be measure by the amount of his/her give and his/her respond toward injustice.” If you really know Christ and as you grow toward Christ-likeness; what break His heart will break yours, you’ll see what He sees, you’ll be interest in someone suffering hardships, you’ll not look the other way when you see injustice, you’ll take your part (great or small it maybe) to fight injustice. 

THINK BIG Examine question:
How do you react when you see the injustice happen all around you?

START SMALL Take interest, look for a way to assist rather than simply avoid it.
Your act of justice no matter how small or big it is – It’s matter to God.

GO DEEP Your action may not only create a divide moments in the lives of those of whom you rescue but also in the hearts of those who may see it.