Brokenness

Tonight at church, we talked about the Beatitudes from Matthew 5:1-12 and also Luke 6:20-36. And it got me thinking...

In the passage in Luke-Jesus said Blessed are you who weep now, For you shall Laugh. In the passage in Matthew it says Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.

I once had someone give me a card that was stamped with the Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted on it...because it was right after my grandma died in college. I guess since then, I just associate this Beatitude with my grandma dying...but realized tonight how much I've had it wrong. I feel like the weeping and the mourning that Jesus talked about in these scriptures is weeping and mourning for the sin of ourselves and of the world. For weeping and mourning of how much sin has brought into this world such hatred and unfair things.

There's the song Hosanna by Hillsong that has the line..."so break my heart for what breaks yours". I know that my heart has not been breaking enough for the things that breaks His heart. Lately, there have been many situations that I have seen how we as Christians have just been tainted so much by the world. We no longer have the clear consciences because they have been corrupted. We feel that since the world is now accepting of so many things...that we should just accept that sin. What is wrong with this picture? I thought we were supposed to live in the world but not live of the world! Why are our hearts not breaking like they should when we sin? Why are we ignoring our sins? Why are we not weeping and mourning this world?

1 John 2:15-17 says

¹⁵Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world.¹⁷The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever

We as Christians need to step up. Admit our sins, forgive and ask for forgiveness...but then we need to hold each other accountable. We need to be broken for the sins of this world. It's so easy to be upset and sad about hunger and war and everything else in this world, so why aren't we looking at ourselves? God's heart is breaking due to our own sin...so why isn't our heart breaking?

Brokenness is what I long for
Brokenness is what I need
Brokenness is what You want for me