From The Inside Out

This world is filled with a ever growing amount of broken hearts. Everyday there is someone being dragged into a situation that is ripping them apart inside. They have no true guidance from loving friends or family. Take a look around you the next time you are at wal-mart, or school, or the mall. Look closely! Dare to look into someone’s eyes, and see their pain, and feel their broken heart. Just look up and see a searching soul. See the need. Hear the plead of desperate souls crying for just some way to be free. Look upon their prison called flesh. See the bloody marks on their head, where they have beat it against the bars. See their hands and feet in chains. See the scars on their broken face. Look deep. See behind that picture perfect smile and look what is really there. Listen beyond their rough laugh and harsh cursing, and hear the weeping and wailing they try so hard to cover. Reach out and touch the hand that looks so free to do what it wants, and feel the chains that bind. Look beyond the harsh spirit of rebellion, and see the desire for love. Move beyond all the blackness, the crazy looks, the hate filled personality, and see the longing for love. Don’t say there is none like that!! I have seen beyond the smile, and found the quivering lips! I have heard beyond the laughing and profanity, and heard the wailing! I have moved to shake that hand that acts so free, to find the chains of hell wrapped tightly around it. I have felt that broken heart. I have seen the tears and fears. I have had them come, as I would open my mouth and sing and play, while they would look off, and brush away the tears. I have seen them melt, when I would step out of my place in life, and say a simple broken “I love you, but Jesus loves you more than I ever could.” As I would move beyond, through the Spirit, I would see they wanted to believe. They longed for someone or something they could trust! Someone that wouldn’t want them for who they was, or what they had. I have seen them!! I have seen them come running to the alter, knowing they had to have that same love that was in me. The Love Of Christ. And I have seen them come so close… and turn around and walk away, out of fear. So I beg you today!! Look beyond all the fronts… and through the eyes of Christ… and see some broken searcher… from the inside out. It is your duty!!