My heart is heavy today, because in New York Psalm 2 is being fulfilled. Not only are the nations raging against America, with the Venezuelan president calling Bush “the devil” and the U.S. “the evil empire”, but with God’s anointed leader of the earth, Jesus the Christ, as all of the world leaders try to lead the world themselves. They talk about “justice and peace”, when all they really want is man’s way without God.  This futile exercise will ultimately end in much strife, because they refuse to submit to and kiss the Son who is only wise enough, pure enough, and loving enough to lead humanity.

My heart is heavy today, because man is trying and will try to rebuild the tower of Babel - so that “nothing will be impossible for us” (Gen. 11:6) with one common tongue, one common economy, political system, ruled and governed by unperfect man. We are at enmity with God, and my heart is heavy because the world will have to go through “times as never before seen on the earth, that must be shortened or no flesh would survive” (Matt. 24) in order for the earth and the church to be prepared to receive Jesus as the only true and worthy King of the Earth.

My heart is heavy today, because after leaving the U.N., the Venezuelan president is invited to speak at a Baptist church about his policies and oil. He appeals to the “christian” and “jewish” nation we live in by referring to himself as “david” against the US empire “goliath”, when hours earlier he was using terms like “insha-allah” to point his muslim “brothers” to his agenda. The “church” hypnotically goes along, all the while, why Fox News cameras fixate on the cross in the background of the church, and the world scoffs at the blindness of “church” to receive such deceitful men with open arms.

My heart is heavy today, because like Jonah in the stormy boat, the world often has more discernment about what is really going on in the world than the church. My heart is heavy, for we are sleeping in unreality.

My heart is heavy today, because we are often more concerned with box office trends and celebrity marriages than the times and the seasons of the earth. We spend millions on tracking devices to avoid bad weather like hurricanes, but we wont spend a minute asking God for understanding for the hour in which we live on the earth.

My heart is heavy today, because when Jesus says “Watch therefore! For you do not know the hour the Son of Man is coming” we brush it under the rug by inventing theologies that justify our lack of readiness for what is coming through escape, rather than heeding our masters words and being ready with our waists girded and lampstands full.

My heart is heavy today, because although we are quick to quote Jesus’ words “I have called you friends” - we care not about His heart for days ahead, but turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to what is coming on the earth, though 1/3 of the entire scriptures point to it.

My heart is heavy today, because many believe that all of the sudden they will get ready for the end and cry out to God when the trouble hits, and they will be swept away by delusion, not having prepared their heart by seeking God when there was still time.

My heart is heavy today, because we avoid discussing the nations and the future and the coming of Christ because we’re concerned about being seen as “controversial” or “super-spiritual”. Our fear of man proves a snare and we lose the very reality that propelled the early church into exponential kingdom growth inside and out.

My heart is heavy today, because although we are quick to quote Jesus’ words “I have called you friends” - we avoid Him like an angry father or an abusive husband, instead of coming to Him like we would the greatest and most trustworthy friend, casting our every weakness on Him, because He cares for us and delights in giving us mercy.

My heart is heavy today because Peter said “The end of all things is near, therefore be watchful and sober-minded in your prayers!” (1 Pet. 4:7), but we throw that in our “unclear” box and continue to go on “with business as usual”, and thrust ourselves in the category of the delusional in the Days of Noah. We may not be given over to “drunkenness, partying, marrying and giving in marriage” in the natural, but how about in the Spirit?

My heart is heavy today, because if we don’t understand something, we explain it away with human logic to justify our boxes, instead of calling on the beautiful God-man who beckons our most honest questions, that he may illuminate, exhilarate, and fascinate us with His Word.

My heart is heavy, because although we long for deep, meaningful experience in our human relationships, we avoid it altogether when it comes to the Lord because of some people on TV who have “gone overboard”. Then we dismiss the Lord’s command to wait and seek Him to be “clothed with power from on high” (Acts 1:4-5) by telling ourselves we already are.

My heart is heavy, because just like he did before Moses’ day and Jesus’ day, Satan is destroying babies (this time through abortion) because he knows we are entering a transitional season in history just as Moses and Jesus were. Instead of understanding the times and seasons, we hide under an escape clause doctrine that has only existed for the last 200 years.

My heart is heavy, because Muslim’s also look forward to a real Jesus coming and a false Jesus coming. Except their false Jesus is our real Jesus and our false Jesus is their real Jesus. And Jesus told us this would happen, and yet the Bible still says “many will fall away.” (Matt. 24:10) My heart is heavy, because my own heart has misperceptions of Jesus that must and can be corrected as I pursue the knowledge of Him by His careful, gracious leadership, but I shy away.

My heart is heavy, because the nations are raging against God’s chosen King, His chosen people, and His chosen land. My heart is heavy, because the American church is so given to deception, for lack of the true knowledge of God that He is so desperately willing to give to the hungry. If we aren’t too busy…

My heart is heavy, because His heart is heavy.

6.5 billion times more than mine.