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When was the first time your heart hurt?
Not some high school love heartbreak, but a genuine brokenness for other people. For me, it was seeing the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. The storm didn't affect my family, but it had changed the lives of many of my friends. It was also felt like it was in my own backyard. I remember gutting a house, 9 months after the storm, that stood not 150ft from where I lived as a small child when my Dad was in seminary.
My heart broke for disaster relief and it's still something I am passionate about now. I might not know you, but your situation rests heavy on my own soul.
Late in the story of the New Testament, a man named Nehemiah found himself broken-hearted for others. While he was serving the king of Babylon as Jew, his people had been sent back to Jerusalem from exile. And it wasn't nearly as fun as they hoped and expected.
In late autumn, in the month of Kislev, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes' reign, I was at the fortress of Susa. 2 Hanani, one of my brothers, came to visit me with some other men who had just arrived from Judah. I asked them about the Jews who had returned there from captivity and about how things were going in Jerusalem.
3 They said to me, "Things are not going well for those who returned to the province of Judah. They are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem has been torn down, and the gates have been destroyed by fire."
4 When I heard this, I sat down and wept. In fact, for days I mourned, fasted, and prayed to the God of heaven.
Nehemiah 1:1-5
This brokenness would take him on a journey for the rest of his life. It was a journey of leadership for the sake of others.
Burdens Break Us For the Mending of OthersWhen our heart is burdened, we are physically taking on the hurt and pain for others, and making decisions upon what to do about it. Nehemiah shares with us a fantastic pathway towards both discerning the proper reaction to burdens, and the proper pathways to go alongside the situations that are breaking our heart.
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When was the first time your heart hurt?
Not some high school love heartbreak, but a genuine brokenness for other people. For me, it was seeing the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. The storm didn't affect my family, but it had changed the lives of many of my friends. It was also felt like it was in my own backyard. I remember gutting a house, 9 months after the storm, that stood not 150ft from where I lived as a small child when my Dad was in seminary.
My heart broke for disaster relief and it's still something I am passionate about now. I might not know you, but your situation rests heavy on my own soul.
Late in the story of the New Testament, a man named Nehemiah found himself broken-hearted for others. While he was serving the king of Babylon as Jew, his people had been sent back to Jerusalem from exile. And it wasn't nearly as fun as they hoped and expected.
In late autumn, in the month of Kislev, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes' reign, I was at the fortress of Susa. 2 Hanani, one of my brothers, came to visit me with some other men who had just arrived from Judah. I asked them about the Jews who had returned there from captivity and about how things were going in Jerusalem.
3 They said to me, "Things are not going well for those who returned to the province of Judah. They are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem has been torn down, and the gates have been destroyed by fire."
4 When I heard this, I sat down and wept. In fact, for days I mourned, fasted, and prayed to the God of heaven.
Nehemiah 1:1-5
This brokenness would take him on a journey for the rest of his life. It was a journey of leadership for the sake of others.
Burdens Break Us For the Mending of OthersWhen our heart is burdened, we are physically taking on the hurt and pain for others, and making decisions upon what to do about it. Nehemiah shares with us a fantastic pathway towards both discerning the proper reaction to burdens, and the proper pathways to go alongside the situations that are breaking our heart.