“And the children of Israel said unto the Lord, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray this day. And they put away the strange (foreign) gods from among them, and served the Lord; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel” (Judges 10:15-16).
The word grieve is a love word. We grieve over those we love. For example, parents grieve over their children when they experience pain of some kind even if it’s the consequence of their poor choices. The Apostle John wrote, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth” (3 John 4). The opposite of what John wrote is also true. There is no greater grief to a godly parent then to hear that their child is not walking in the ways of the Lord, but rather is living in sin. Do you know that Christians (children of God) can also grieve the loving heart of God? The Apostle Paul wrote, “And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God…” (Eph. 4:30). We grieve the heart of God when we are not walking in truth—when we are living with unconfessed and unforsaken sin in our lives. No one on this planet loves us more, cares for us more and has done more for us then our heavenly father. Why would we grieve and break the heart of God? If you have sin in your life right now confess it to God and forsake it. John wrote, “If we confess our sins God is faithful and just to forgive us of our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). Live to bring joy and not grief to the Heart of our wonderful Heavenly Father.
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