Fear No Fear

“Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because people do not keep Your law” (Psalm 119:136, MEV). One of our most solid proofs of the love of God for us is our compassion for those who are rejecting Him (1 John 4:19). I’ve learned this and I am starting to walk in it. I don’t mean the lost people you might come across day to day. It’s easy to see their pain. It’s easy to see how they need God. It’s easy to feel compassion rising. I’m talking about the one step removed from you. One step because of technology. We see our leaders talk in the media. Do you feel compassion for them? We see entertainers doing what they do. Do you feel compassion for them? I have in the last six months literally shed tears with a heart that breaks for some of the people in the media. I don’t know them. I don’t know what they’ve done or not done. But I am beginning to see them as God sees them. He’s showing me His compassion for them. And it HURTS. I cannot imagine how much it hurts God. I don’t think I truly want to understand, because that might break me. God’s capacity for love is so much more than mine, His capacity for being hurt is so much more than mine. But He is showing me what I can understand and handle. And I HURT for them. I have to pray. When it comes on me, I have to pray. I can’t always listen to what they are saying. It grates me. It rubs me wrong and I have to turn it off. But my heart stays on them. I have to lift them up. I do not know if they have a shot. Some of them REALLY reject God. But that is not my monkey. It isn’t my calling. I am not called to see into their heart and judge whether or not they have knowingly rejected Holy Spirit, Jesus, and the Father. That is above my pay grade. But since God desperately wants everyone to choose Him and NO ONE ends up where the devil and his angels will (Matthew 25:41; 2 Peter 3:9), MY job is to have that same heart (Ephesians 5:1-2). Our compassion for the lost is a mirror of God’s compassion for the lost. We love because He loves us.