Breaking God’s Heart
Breaking God’s Heart
Through "acts of deliberate or careless disloyalty,"
Disloyalty: This occurs when someone sides with an opponent or acts in a way that undermines a previously agreed-upon norm or relationship,
or moral standards.
Examples of disloyalty
Judas Iscariot:
Betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, a betrayal so profound it became a metaphor for betrayal itself.
King Solomon:
His heart was turned to other gods by his many foreign wives, despite the Lord's previous blessings.
The Children of Israel:
Repeatedly disloyal through a lack of faith, idolatry, and failing to keep God's law, leading to periods of judgment and exile.
A Story on lack of faith and trust with Adam and Eve:
Mankind’s betrayal and downfall— Genesis 3:1-7
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
At first glance it looks like only the serpent, Adam, and Eve are there. But, of course, as an omnipresent, omniscient being, we know God was there too. He saw and heard everything.
In one seemingly fairly short moment, God was lied about.
He was forgotten.
He was ignored.
He was maligned.
He was denied.
He watched the serpent a remorseless enemy, lure Adam and Eve away.
They walked closely with Him “in the cool of the day.” And yet, when the inkling of the idea that there might be something “better” was offered, they turned without a second thought.
Unlike us, who become vengeful and self-righteous when betrayed, His disappointment, sorrow, and anger would have been completely pure and righteous
The Bible makes it clear that God is grieved over our sin (Psalm 78:40).
40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the wasteland! 41 Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
God reveals Himself in the Bible as a gentle, forgiving Father, intimately involved with each and every detail of our lives.
It is not only a beautiful picture, but a true one. However, every person seems to have a different idea of what God is like, because they unconsciously tend to attach the feelings and impressions that they have of their own earthly father to their concept of their Heavenly Father. Each person’s own experience with human authority is usually transferred over to how they relate to God.
Good experiences bring us closer to knowing and understanding God, just as bad experiences create distorted pictures of our Father’s love for us.
God in form as a man, Jesus wept, a demonstration of the strength of God’s emotions and His empathy with our own. How His emotions must have rolled on that day!
Jesus came to heal the broken hearted
One day, Jesus stood up in the synagogue and said
Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised…
Luke 4:18 was then and still is Jesus’ manifesto.
Part of the reason Jesus came to earth was to heal the broken hearted. Jesus can give you a new heart, or he can renew and soften a hard heart.
God is always near to the broken hearted. Jesus came to bind up the broken hearted.
Hebrews 4:15 KJV
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
How Father God Feels about You notwithstanding our failures or wastefulness of what He’s given to us.
The story of the prodigal son, recorded in Luke 15, is often called the parable of the Father’s heart.
Jesus tells of a man with two sons, one of whom asked for his inheritance in advance. The father gave it to him, and the son went out and squandered it, ending up in a pig sty. Finally, Scripture says, the young man “came to himself.” He recognized the insensibility of the pathway he’d walked and how foolish he’d been to leave home. He returned, humbled, thinking he would ask to be just a servant at his father’s place.
“But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.” (Luke 15:20-24)
The crowd was rejoicing, and Christ was sobbing.
Why did Jesus weep when He saw Jerusalem? Being God and having omniscience, Jesus knew these fickle people who were crying out, “Hosanna!” would soon be shouting, “Crucify Him!”
Jesus also wept because His ministry was almost over. Time was short. He had healed their sick. He had raised their dead. He had cleansed their lepers. He had fed their hungry. He had forgiven their sins. Yet for the most part, He had been rejected.
John 1:11 says,
“He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.” And so He wept. This broke His heart, and it still does.
Our Father is always looking for our return.
Many people think of God watching us as though He were looking for a chance to spear us through with a lightening bolt. If you or I feel that, it’s because of our own sense of shame and guilt for what we’ve done. Guilt deserves to be felt, but it isn’t God’s attitude toward us. It’s our own sense of alienation because of our sin. It doesn’t represent God’s heart.
The son comes with repentance, and the father’s heart responds.
Repentance is turning from our own way to God’s. It’s recognizing the Lord’s ways are good, safe, and secure for us. As we align with the Lord, it opens the way for Him to release possibilities for our lives. He loves us with an everlasting love, unconditionally.
The Father wants to reinstate us.
When the son did that, look what happened. The father put a ring on his finger, a robe over his shoulders and shoes on his feet.
The ring represents reinstatement to partnership with the father. It was his return to being “in business with Dad.” God is saying, through the lips of His own Son, “If you’ll come back to Me, I will reinstate the possibilities I had in mind for you,” just as the father was going to re-enfranchise his son in the family business.
The robe over his shoulders went all the way down to the son’s ankles. It was a robe of dignity. It was the father covering whatever would be the shame or nakedness of the past. Father God desires to restore us to full stature, to robe us with the beauty of what we were made to be. Shoes in that ancient culture represented an end to the time of weeping and mourning the past.
Is God’s heart breaking over you right now?
Do our life choices break God’s heart? Are we making decisions that God knows will lead to disaster?
Could your name be substituted for Jerusalem when we read “Jerusalem, Jerusalem,…How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!”? (Luke 13:34 NRSV)
* God’s Heart is Broken when we are Religious but not righteous.
* God’s Heart is broken over Our Indifference or Disobedience.
In Conclusion…
If it breaks God’s heart, why would it fulfill yours?
Expecting peace, joy, hopes, and love from things that breaks God's heart is like burning your own self in fire that you made for.
If it's breaking His heart, it's not good for you.
If it's breaking His heart, it's not meant for you.
If it's breaking His heart, it's not what He has for you.
If it's breaking His heart, it's not making you.
If it's breaking His heart, it's harmful for you.
If it's breaking His heart, it's destruction for you.
We can't expect things to fulfill us if that thing is breaking God's heart.
So think,
Are your actions breaking God's heart or not?
Are your decisions breaking God's heart of not?
Are your plans breaking God's heart or not?
Are your habits breaking God's hear or not?
AGAIN, if it’s breaking God’s heart why would you think it will fulfill yours?
The only thing that He wants for us is best and good.
Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Proverbs 3:9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase.
