The Need To Get Your Heart Broken

Its funny. I just wrote another post about a broken heart for my other blog. But that was a more worldly and carnal post. Right now, I’m talking about witnessing to our friends. I was witnessing to a friend who I’ve been trying to reach all year. Her heart is cold as stone and she’s pissed off with God who she doesn’t believe in because her greatest sin is ‘not believing in Jesus’. I think I made a big mistake by trying to explain things to her in a certain way, it just made things more confusing. Well, I’ve tried so many ways so I just kept trying different ways to explain things. Maybe I’m not in tune with the Holy Spirit enough. Maybe my prayer life sucks. I don’t know. I just try my best.

What was good was that she finally revealed her ‘secret blog’ to me and I read what she really thought about God. It was a no holes barred, full-on catharsis. Quite frankly, it was heartbreaking. I guess its just a small glimpse of what prophets like Jeremiah felt as they mourned the unbelief of their hearers. The danger is that it would drive some Christians to discouragement and inactivity because they lose hope and think their actions are futile. Instead, what we should feel is deep compassion and concern about the doom that people are facing.

It may sound simplistic but the greatest tragedy is dying without Jesus. Many of your friends, hundreds of people you know are heading that way. Do you care enough to at least warn them?