Scripture:
Genesis 6:6
The Lord regretted that
he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.
Our God is a God of passion. He is a God of
emotions. He is not a flat, unfeeling observer. He loves, He gets angry, He
grieves, and in Genesis 6:6, we see that the sinfulness of humanity deeply
troubled His heart.
What an impact we have on the heart of God! To
think that He cares for our affairs and the state of our spirituality so much
that we can deeply trouble His heart.
But what I notice here is that God isn't simply
deeply troubled in His heart, and then, moves on. He doesn't feel the emotion
and then, simply shrug it off or "get over it."
He acts.
He does something.
When God's heart was deeply troubled, it moved Him
to try to correct the situation.
So, the question is, what makes your heart deeply
troubled? And what do you do about it? Like God, probably the things that most
trouble your heart are the results of sin in the world - children going hungry,
people being treated unjustly, people taking advantages unfairly... When your
heart is troubled by those things that should not be, what do you do? Do you
pretend as if there's nothing you can do about it and move on with your life,
or do you take action to correct the situation, like God did?
Injustice deeply troubles God's heart, just as it
does ours. And He will not let it stand. He will take action to correct the
situation, usually doing so through our actions.
Let the strength of His deep passion move you
emotionally, and actively, as together with Him you DO SOMETHING.
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