Rivers of tears gush from my eyes
because people disobey your instructions.
—Psalm 119:136 (NLT)
Ever Loving LORD,
May my heart break—along with Yours—and may my tears gush over the disobedience of Your people!
I confess that my heart has not been truly broken and far too few of my tears have been shed over the choices that Your own people have made to disobey, dishonor, and disregard Your instructions.
Instead of being broken, my heart has been self-righteously critical and judging of others when I witness the mess that they have made of their lives by the choices that they have made—thinking in my heart that they have gotten what they deserve.
Then I am reminded that I, too, have broken Your heart through my own disobedience and am deserving of much worse than I have received—and yet, You have loved me back to Yourself, time and time again.
Help my heart to break over sin—both mine own and the sins of others—and show me how to love others in the same way You have shown Your love to me.
Grant me the humility of heart to love them as You would have me love them—to love them enough to love them back to You!
May my heart break—along with Yours—and may my tears gush over the disobedience of Your people!
In the name of Jesus, Amen.
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