Read: Acts 20:16-31
I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears. - Acts 20:31
Some people think crying is a sign of weakness. But our Savior wept. And the apostle Paul was not afraid to mention his own tears when he wrote about his burden for people. Good servants of Jesus Christ will be like that - they will have tender, compassionate hearts. They will be so filled with love that those feelings will often splash over as tears.
One day D.L. Moody preached a moving sermon about the compassion of Christ. When a friend asked him how he had prepared such a message, he answered, "I got to thinking the other day about the compassion of Christ; so I took the Bible and began to read it over to find out what it said on the subject. I prayed over the texts as I went along until the thought of His infinite compassion overpowered me, and I could only lie on the floor of my study with my face in the open Bible and cry like a child."
As we stand in the shadow of the cross and let God's love in Christ flood our souls, our heard hearts will melt, and coldness will give way to warmth. If we allow the Holy Spirit to control us, He will produce in us a Christlike concern. Then his compassion for the unsaved will become ours. The love of Christ will cause us to reach out to others. And that caring attitude will be accompanied by timely tears. - Paul Van Gorder
Tears flow freely from the fountain of a love-filled heart.
I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears. - Acts 20:31
Some people think crying is a sign of weakness. But our Savior wept. And the apostle Paul was not afraid to mention his own tears when he wrote about his burden for people. Good servants of Jesus Christ will be like that - they will have tender, compassionate hearts. They will be so filled with love that those feelings will often splash over as tears.
One day D.L. Moody preached a moving sermon about the compassion of Christ. When a friend asked him how he had prepared such a message, he answered, "I got to thinking the other day about the compassion of Christ; so I took the Bible and began to read it over to find out what it said on the subject. I prayed over the texts as I went along until the thought of His infinite compassion overpowered me, and I could only lie on the floor of my study with my face in the open Bible and cry like a child."
As we stand in the shadow of the cross and let God's love in Christ flood our souls, our heard hearts will melt, and coldness will give way to warmth. If we allow the Holy Spirit to control us, He will produce in us a Christlike concern. Then his compassion for the unsaved will become ours. The love of Christ will cause us to reach out to others. And that caring attitude will be accompanied by timely tears. - Paul Van Gorder
Tears in my heart for those who pass by -
Not heeding the gospel - not ready to die;
May tears melt my heart, indifferent and cold,
Till many of these are brought into the fold. - MacPetrie
Tears flow freely from the fountain of a love-filled heart.
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