"I've been searching for a Heart of God"

I just feel that I learned so much from reading all your posts this week, I really need to just thank you all you guys for posing such awesome posts.

I just loved the sermon's reminder of how Jesus, while a being of eternal joy, also had great sorrow and grief. And Kailie's post really helped me see that this sermon was talking about how God is inviting us closer to his heart. Whereas when we are invited to have a closer relationship with his heart, we also get to experience the sorrow in his heart.

Sometimes the sorrow is not fun, some posted about how it turns to anger. I definitely feel that a lot. I was thinking about how like 'this sucks, there is so much sin in the world" but DJ gave that super helpful reminder of how we are not in this alone. "Don't carry the weight of making this vision come true on your own shoulders"...but trust in the Lord Jesus.

The realization of our own sin and the sinful state of the world is a sorrowful realization, but is not meant to push us away from the heart of God, but we need reminders that it is okay to experience sorrow. (It's okay to cry DJ said). I guess I would rather experience sorrow while being enveloped by the heart of God, rather than experience sorrow for material possessions or other worldly things that do not deserve our deepest grief.

Lord, allow me to share with your sorrow and "break my heart for what breaks yours." Amen.

Konrad