An Echo From My Heart

So I've got to say. I love chocolate milk.
And I am thoroughly enjoying it at the moment.
Something else I love:
Working at McLintock's. It is so crazy that it is fun!
The people, the atmosphere, it freakin' rocks.



But there was something that blew my mind today.
Twas a man sitting, eating dinner, desert, everything...by himself.
By the time I noticed, he was in the middle of dinner, too late to "pull the extra plate/etc" off the table.
I felt so brokenhearted. Everything in me wanted to stop what I was doing and sit with him.
Talk to him. Love him. And I didn't even know him. Didn't know why he didn't have someone with him.
He appeared melancholy. Downcast with no one to talk to. It was so upsetting.
Yet I could do nothing. I felt powerless.
Had the whole drive home to think about this man. And thus I paralleled it with the world.

How EMPTY so many people must be without Christ.
How many people must be hurting because they don't know the true love of Jesus.
And they try to find pleasure in the absolute nothingness of this world.
The ever-enticing lusts that never-satisfy. Yet they are fooled into belief that they fill.
That for the brief moments, they feel pleased.

This man alone in a restaurant reflected those hearts without Christ.
Alone. Dismal. Heavyhearted.
How it breaks my heart to know that SO many people, even outside my door, go through trials and tribulations, without knowing that "the eternal God is [their] refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. (Deuteronomy 33:27)
And how much must it break God's heart.
However, what wondrous optimism arises in my heart, knowing that He is with me.

To those suffering. To those who are in need. Those longing for more. Whose hearts cry out wanting to be loved. Feel secure. Wrapped in everlasting care and grace. Who fall to their knees when they can stand no longer. Those captured in the snare of sin. Those whose God's heart cries out for.

"Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." (Isaiah 40:28-31)



For us who understand His wonderful mercy, grace, patience, and safekeeping.
Keep those who don't in your heart.
Pray for the man I saw at McLintock's. Pray for those around you. Outside your house. Outside your church.

Let us put on LOVE. For it never fails. Love your Savior, and especially your neighbor. For they need love tenfold. I pray that our goal is not to be so focused on how "perfect" we can become, but how we can bring others into the light. That our goal is not about ourselves. But about the great glory of God and reflecting that in us and through us. That we might show His wonderful grace to those who don't yet know it.

With much love,
Danual

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