I am supposed to be studying. And I will...in a minute. But after my devotions this morning something was laid strongly on my heart and I can't hold it in.
The other day I was talking to my best friend about a situation I had encountered with another friend and I was explaining to her how hard it was to keep giving and giving to this person and to this relationship when they keep doing the same thing over and over and over again. Not necessarily to me, but to themselves. And I was telling her it's hard to keep giving when this person keeps doing this. And her simple, yet so profound answer was, "Jesus would."
Right then and there I knew I was wrong and that I had received a response that I just didn't want to hear. It would have been so much easier to hear her say, "Oh, well some people you just have to let do their own thing and not deal with it." I think this is a big reason why this person who gave me this response is such a good friend of mine, because she says things like this. She, of all my friends in this life, keeps it honest, keeps it real, and always manages to still give me the truth in a non-judgemental way. She's been a great sounding-board for me over the many years of our friendship.
As I "struck gold with Spurgeon" in my blog yesterday and began reading his wonderful passionate words of teaching us how to love our neighbours, looking back on it now I realize it was almost another symbol and hard knock on my door to wake me up and grasp this truth. And then, as I was praying this morning, I found those very words in this blog title come out of my mouth, "Give us hearts like yours." Is this what God was and is trying to teach me this week, this month, this year? He sure knows how to masterfully orchestrate anything, including a simple life lesson that He plans to instill in our hearts before we even know it.
After sitting in silence for a moment and putting all these pieces together it dawned on me that this is how I should be living my life: through Jesus' heart. I have always been one to categorize the different strengths and weaknesses of folks, classifying them (in my mind) of who is worthier and who is more righteous according to their acts. Don't we all, at some point, do that? Shame on me for ever doing that.
Perhaps this is too much depth in one's soul to post in a blog, but I can't help but share it as I imagine some of you may have often gone through the same thought patterns in your own minds.
No one can humanly possibly be automatically fixed by this overnight, but I am so thankful for the simple words He revealed this morning so that I can try with even the smallest amount of hope to model my own life after how He would live His. He loves us more than we can imagine even in our darkest hours, yet we have trouble forgiving or even being a friend to someone who is the slightest bit different than we.
Help us, oh God, to be more like you. Give us hearts like Yours.
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