Break My Heart

Heal my heart and make it clean 


Open up my eyes to the things unseen


Show me how to love like you have loved me



Break my heart for what breaks yours


Everything I am for your kingdoms cause


As I go from earth into eternity

What awesome words!?! These lines alone make Hosanna by Hillsong my favorite contemporary Christian song. They definitely capture the very cry of my heart. These few lines encompass what living a life fully devoted to following Christ is about. Most importantly, it first addresses that we can be of no spiritual benefit to others if we are a complete mess ourselves. It is important as Christians to remain diligent in our walk in order fulfill His ultimate mission and be a blessing to others. The third line sounds so easy, especially as a woman, but to love like God loves is an arduous undertaking for anyone. To love others like He has loved me requires a great deal of patience, understanding and graciousness; far more than I am capable of having. Isn’t it great that we don’t have try with our own might to be these things, though? We just have to be a willing vessel and allow God to make the changes. This is a difficult pill to swallow for me. I often forget that is not by my own doing that anything good comes from me, but by His choosing to act in my life. Romans 7 may be confusing, but it illustrates this perfectly.

The next line is what brings me to tears every time I sing this song in church. “Break my heart for what breaks Yours.” Wow. I would love to say these words touch me because I am so deeply broken for the lost, but unfortunately it is because I am so often not. I WANT those words to be true in my life. I want the idea of hell to become a reality to me instead of a fictional place. Why is it that I can imagine good but not bad, heaven but no hell? I know God is a just God. I KNOW hell exists in my head…just not in my heart. To think of the people I love experience eternity apart from God should create in me a desire for nothing else but to see them come to Christ. I generally think of myself as an empathetic person, but I wish these words were truer for me. I PRAY these words become truer for me. It could make a difference between life and death.

Lord, break my heart for what breaks yours!