We talk of Joy of the Lord.
He celebrates a sinner repenting – and mourns the death of the wicked……. I wonder which He does more of?
I see grief and regret that He ever made mankind, at Noah’s time. Gen 6 v 7-8 So the Lord said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth–men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air — for I am grieved that I have made them.”
- I see in every prophetic message a pleading from God.
- I see anger as He repents of His wish to destroy Israel, at Moses’s request.
- I see the heartbreak of a husband – as pleads with Israel to be a faithful bride. Isiah 63:10 Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit.
So He turned and became their enemy and He Himself fought against them.
He says, as I live, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked. He says – I want all men saved.
So He gets used to disappointment.
We have not done better – Eph 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
I see a Father rip the veil exposing the Heart of God, and open the most Holy Place, to a Roman Centurion as His Son dies.
Are the only voices He hears in heaven the souls under the altar crying out — Rev 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, Holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
I see the tears of Yeshua and no laughter in the Gospel’s, as the Man of sorrows gets ready to die.
He describes Himself …Come unto me for I am meek… not happy, not joyous, but meek…
Meanwhile, we are the happiest church of all time, and we have the least reason to be so.
Do we care…we so-called “friends of God?”
“How can we intercede for a people, and possibly put forward God’s agenda or priorities, when we have no idea of His viewpoint and His heartbreak?