Oh, heart of flesh, how beautiful it is that you are beating.
That you are able to beat. That you are able to feel. That you are able to bleed.
I know the world has told you to stay hard-to remain a heart of stone, though Grace calls us out of that (Ezekiel 36:26).
The problem with the heart of stone is that it has no way to breathe.
The light can’t get to it, and it only knows darkness.
But you, heart of flesh, you have seen the heaviness of that darkness pass away, and the Light can reach you (1 John 2:8).
I know it may not seem that way, as your tears come and your lungs fill heavy and you can barely breathe through your weeping. I thought the heart of flesh could breathe, you barely manage to exhale. I see you fighting to find that light as your soul is overcome by that ache, the ache that feels like darkness but is actually light revealing to you a far greater longing you have, that of heaven, that of Him. It’s this world that is breaking your heart.
Oh, heart of flesh, I see you crying out. Lead me home! Yes, your heart is longing for Him who sits on heaven’s throne. It beats fast and it bleeds tears and it sometimes whispers, sometimes yells, How long, Oh Lord? (Psalm 13:1) And perhaps right now, in the dark of the night, you sorrow, and your soul refuses to be comforted (Psalm 77:2).
But it is only the heart of flesh that is able to bleed anything. It was only a heart of flesh that was able to bleed onto your heart of stone and make it, too, a heart of flesh. And that same bleeding heart, that same bleeding body, now sits on the throne. And He will wipe every tear from your eye. And He will hold your grieving soul, and He will catch all your tears, and the darkness of the night will cease and we will die no more because HE. MAKES. ALL. THINGS. NEW. (Revelation 21:4).
Precious heart of flesh, this world, with its heart of stone, may overlook you. But that heart that bled and died for you wipes all of your tears into His bottle and breathes His breath into your lungs and you will truly live (Psalm 56:8 and Ezekiel 37:5).
