Have you ever been struck by something and found such a profound truth in it that you didn’t quite know how to express it? That’s how I feel tonight. I’m not sure if I can explain in a few simple words the thunderbolt that hit my heart watching the video for the song “Hello World” by Lady Antebellum.
My thought was not about beautiful lyrics or great music, it was a revelation about God’s heart. At one point in the video there is a young girl pulled out of a wrecked car. The paramedics are working on her, but she is not responding. Her mother is looking on in pure anguish, crying out with a breaking heart.
And I thought is that how God sees us, broken and dying? Victims of sin, ours and others? Bleeding on the ground with no hope and no help? His heart breaks for all the broken ones. I think He cries out, and that heart cry is why Jesus came. The broken heart of God led to the cross of Calvary.
In the video, the paramedics give up, the watching crowd seems to slump in sympathy and defeat, the mother weeps uncontrollably. Then a miracle, the little girl gasps and starts to breathe again. Then you can see her cry out “Mommy!” And that cry from a hurt and scared little girl must have been the sweetest sound that mother ever heard!
And when we cry out to our Heavenly Father, when we, though dead in our trespasses and sins call out, “Daddy, help me!” it must be the sweetest sound He has ever heard! Jesus came, to rescue the perishing, to seek and to save the lost. And in that moment when we confess our need and call out to Jesus, all heaven rejoices. (Luke 15:7)
God loves us as desperately and deeply as any mother ever loved her child. His pain and agony is real, just as real as the agony of Christ on the cross. And His rejoicing is just as real. Remember when the prodigal returned home? His father runs to meet him, just as our Heavenly Father runs to meet us and says, “This son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.” (Luke 15:24 NIV)
May our gracious Lord continue to reveal Himself to me in the simple things! Thank you for speaking to my heart tonight!
By the way, if you want to watch the video you can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al2DFQEZl4M
