My heart hurts. I’m contacted by people in pain and my heart grieves. The other night, I visited with a young woman in a horrific situation. She was ready to take her life, but because I care, because I love her, she couldn’t go through with her plan.  

My love causes her grief. She said it would be easier to leave this world and all the pain, but because someone cares, she couldn’t. She wonders how I could love her and why I care. I care because God loves her. The feelings and emotions I have toward my young friend are God given. My heart bleeds and cries for her and the others who suffer at the hands of evil.  

I tell her God cares, because I know God. I know His character, I know who He is. I know without a doubt that evil will be punished, that He will wipe away the tears, and He will stop the suffering. Why does God wait? I can’t answer every situation. I don’t see the big picture. But I know, I know, I know, that God is good, even when man is not.  

I know God’s heart bleeds at man’s sinful nature. God does feel and He does care, because God’s perfect nature is love. Beth Moore said, “When He signed up for love, He signed up for pain.”

God chose to feel emotion. His heart bleeds with you as you cry. His arms long to hold you close. And someday very soon, He will punish the evildoers, He will set the captive free, and He will wipe away every tear.

Hold on, my young friend. Please hold on.

“The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him, and permitting Him to speak to us… As we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.” E. M. Bounds