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The Heart of God
Brian Mashburn
August 30, 2009
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The Heart of God
I remember a man who really struggled to "show his heart".
What that phrase means is up for debate, I guess. All I remember is that when this otherwise robotic, driven, efficiency-focused, and hurried man stopped his life for a moment to meet a little boy in tragic circumstances from the inner city of Houston, and then was compelled to do something for him that had no reason to it other than compassion, and then teared up in the van on the way home as he recounted the story, his wife said, "Oh, so you do have heart!"
According to scripture, let me say in the loudest possible way, God has a heart. He is revealed to us as anything but robotic, driven, efficiency-focused and hurried.
As a matter of fact, God is quite emotional. Steadfast in all His ways, but emotional (I think we often think that those two things are opposites).
God's heart grieves (Gen 6:6). It laments (Isa 16:11). It cries (Isa 15:5).
God's heart goes out to people (Jer 15:1). It yearns for people (Jer 31:30). It has compassion for people (Hos 11:8).
God has depth concealed in his heart (Job 10:13). He has purposes there (Ps 33:11). He speaks there (Gen 8:21). He acts from there (Jer 32:41).
Occasionally, a man may be described with the words, "he is all heart!" But it cannot be said more accurately than when it is said of God.
One time, God described a man in scripture as "a man after His own heart."
How would it feel to meet God, and to have Him say that about you? To just look in His eyes, and know that this is how He feels about you?
How do we attain to that?
It's worth asking. And you can find the answer. But to find it, you will have to look square into His heart. You will be amazed, confronted, invited, and then helped, if you are willing. Are you?