Grains of Sand

Pixabay “ Break my heart for what breaks yours ” is a line from a Hillsong United song, called Hosanna . It came to mind this morning as I read Genesis 6. God looks down and sees the state of the world and this is recorded: “T he Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of his heart was only evil all the time. The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain ” (vss. 5, 6). We are not accustomed to think of God as being in pain. Somehow He is viewed as being above all that, particularly when we consider that Revelation tells us that there is no pain in heaven (Revelation 21:4). Yet that is where He resides. Perhaps the clue there is that John is describing how it will be after the second coming and the final judgment on evil and evil men. In the meanwhile, even God feels pain. Even the Almighty lives with a broken heart. The song asks for a heart broken by what breaks God’s heart, and here in Ge...