Yesterday we sang the song Hosanna by Brooke Fraser. Great worship song. The words in a good worship song take me to the foot of my Father’s throne. They move me to lay prostrate before Him allowing Him to use my life as He wills.
As we sang the song, the phrase, “Break my heart for what breaks Yours” caught in my throat. The song continues, “Everything I am for Your kingdom’s cause as I walk from earth into eternity.”
Break my heart for what breaks Yours.
In the book I am about to publish, Adopting the Heart of a Father, I write about God’s heart for the orphans. One of my favorite verses that I quote in the chapter, The Call of a Father’s Heart is Psalm 68:5-6. “Father to the fatherless, defender of widows – this is God, whose dwelling is holy. God places the lonely in families.”
When I read that verse, I feel God’s heartbeat. I sense His heart-break for the fatherless and the lonely. What a tremendous God whose mind is on those who do not have a father nor a family.
Break my heart for what breaks Yours.
God has blessed me by growing up in a biological family and by being a part of a family of believers. God has blessed me also with a wife of nearly 25 years and now an adopted son. I have not experienced the loneliness of being an orphan or a widower.
I do not have within me what it takes to feel compassion for those who are orphaned or without a family. So, I need for Him to break my heart for what breaks His.
When my wife, Danielle, and I began to consider adopting a child through the foster system, I was not willing to foster a child that was not available for adoption. I could not imagine becoming attached to a child to only see them return to their family.
I did not want my heart to break.
That is why those words caught in my throat when I sang them. I realized that through our experience of fostering a child, God has broken my heart for what breaks His. We became more concerned for children that had no family or were at risk than we did for our own hearts. So, we fostered a child knowing that he could go back to his family.
Please Lord Jesus, continue to break my heart for what breaks Yours.
Question – What does your heart break over?
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