Because I Cannot Go with You

Sometimes words are not enough to comfort the soul of someone you love. Sometimes the only one who can really hear what you are trying to say is Jesus. Despite the valiant efforts of ones who love you so much, despite wanting to offer you comfort that will ease your pain, despite all this sometimes you are alone. Not alone as in lonely but rather a necessary aloneness...an aloneness that alienates you from everyone while drawing you closer to Jesus. At the very core of your being where the most tender part of your heart resides and is also most fragile and pained, it is necessary to go there. However, you cannot go there with anyone on this earth. You can only make this journey with Jesus. Just as you reach the core of your deepest pain, fear and regret Jesus may stop and wait for you. Perhaps it is needed for you to go some of the journey completely alone, pick up your heart and feel it. Hold it in your hands, feel the tremors and embrace its sobs. Look at it, note the tears in its delicate flesh, and caress the bruises of wounds inflicted. Do not despise what you see. Rather, weep for the callous part where anger has tried to reside and weep for it may have felt forgotten. Does it feel cold? It is weak and seems to be barely beating. Jesus beckons you, "Bring your heart to Me.” Carry it to Him. Do not hope He can heal it, believe that He can. Then once you believe do not settle for believing He can heal it, know that He can. Become so persuaded in Him that it is not a matter of if or when but it simply is. Jesus is. Jesus really loves you. Jesus really loves you. Jesus really loves you. Do you love yourself? Hold out your arms, open your hands and let Jesus have your heart. Trust Him.


Isaiah 53:4-6 
Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken,Smitten by God, and afflicted.5 But was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. 

John 3:16-17

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

Matthew 11:28-30 (Jesus speaking)

"Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

Call out Jesus. Give Him your heart that you may be made new. Allow Him to minister to your deepest hurts, sorrow, hardness and pain. 

Romans 10:8-13

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”