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WHISPERS TO AND FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT

Dear Lord, My Stolen Heart

You have stolen my heart, Dear Lord.
Why do you leave it with me?
Why do you not take what you have stolen?
I am so wounded with your love?
Why would you expect me such a sinner,
to carry a heart, so pierced
by your heavenly love?
How can I be a vessel for love
greater than life itself?
A love that prefers death with you
then life in this world.
What could I have possibly have done
to deserve the depth of this love?
A love that I shall never find in man,
but only in and through the Holy Spirit.
The piercing of my heart with your love
leaves me a foreigner in this world.
I wonder with pain when you will
take the heart you have stolen.
Until then, I live wounded with your grace
Living in a world that cares no more
for the love you offer.
Yet in your goodness and grace,
you continue to offer it,
choosing any heart, you want to pierce
with your everlasting love.
Thank you, Lord, for choosing my heart.
Your arrow of love has pierced my heart
with penetration so deep it can never be
removed until such time, you carry this
pierced heart full of sublime love home to you.
and to the throne of Our Father.

Dr. Don’s Reflections

I thought I gave the Lord my heart, but he really stole it from me. I had no idea of the sublimity into which I would enter once I began to seriously see him as my Father and understand the life and purpose of Jesus Christ along with talking with the Holy Spirit. I had absolutely no idea my relationship with God would be at a level of intimacy that I have never shared with another person.

This state of grace was such a high to me that I never realized that he stole my heart for all I did was open it up to him, and when I did, he took it, all of it. I kept on coming back to him, many times not knowing what I was doing, but every time I came back in prayer and meditation, I knew God had my heart.  Finally, at one point, I realize, he must have taken all of my heart because I cannot live without my God. He is my every breath, my every thought and my heartbeat around his existence.

I know how crazy this sounds. Believe me, when I set out on my walk with Christ, I never thought I would be involved in a love that goes beyond human understanding. I can write about it all I want, but unless the reader has experienced it, he or she will never get it with any explanation I can give.

In this Whisper To The Holy Spirit, I say to the Lord, “Why did you just take my heart?”  “Why take my heart and leave me here in this world?”  Why leave me here where I will sin and not do your will. Now that I know what your world is like let me come with you. Why keep me here? Why did you leave me here? Why did you not take not only my heart but my spirit too?  How do you expect me, a sinner to handle your love now that my heart belongs to you?  How can I contain this love that is deeper than the universe?

With Christ in possession of my heart, I would prefer to die and be with him than live in this world.  The love of the world is no comparison to the love of God, and now that my heart belongs to him, this world holds nothing for me. Yet, my God leaves me here for his purpose.

It is all about purpose, and therein lies the answer. He leaves me here to tell others what I have, what he has given me, the gift of a stolen heart. Just as unsuspecting as I was when he stole my heart so too will others be in this world. But how do others get to happen to them what happens to me?  Answer.  I have to share my experience with everybody I can, and that is why God has left me here after he has stolen my heart, to tell others. I realize God left me here to tell others even though I am still a sinner and sometimes disobedient.  There is no way God is going to wait for his people to be perfect before they share the word. If he did that, then he would have no one to spread the good news. When God steals your heart, the purpose of your life changes.

That purpose is why I have authored this blog, That is why I go into prisons, and that is why I visit the sick. Not just to care but to share. To tell them that all they have to do is open their heart to God and he will do the rest. Once he knows you want him, he takes you to himself.

There is a song entitled “God Stole My Heart” by Spencer Kane, and it goes like this………………….

I can’t move I’m paralyzed
Cause you have stolen everything that was inside all my obsessions
What I thought would pass possession
You have taken away And you left me with your love
You hit me like a heart attack
Someone pushing me in the back
Never saw it coming
In the silence of the night
Rain on us never like before
Melt my heart away
Capture us with the wisdom of love
God stole my heart from me
And I don’t ever want it back

Yes, I was surprised to realize God had stolen my heart, and I am sure happy he did not wait for me to give it to him.  As the song reads, “I never saw it coming”; But there is one thing now I know about my stolen heart, “I never want it back.”

Dr. Don’s Comments

Do you want to give your heart to Jesus, if so, know that when you give it, he takes all of it? It is not as if he takes a piece of your heart at a time; no, he wants it all. The minute you say my heart is yours Jesus and mean it, he swoops in and takes it like a thief in the night. Your heart is gone, and you are his.  Know, however; you have lost nothing; in fact, you have gained everything that comes with belonging to God that is love, peace,  power, and eternal existence.

The fact that he has stolen your heart does not mean you have become saintly all of a sudden.  No, you are human so God can still have your heart but not your will, not your obedience, maybe even not your love.  But he is a patient God he knows that you opened up your heart to him and he took it all. He realizes the rest will come later.

Through the Holy Spirit, you will become obedient, and you will want to do his will, and your love will grow and grow for God.  You will develop an intimate relationship with your God. A relationship that you could not match with any worldly relationship.  Worldly relationships are conditional, but God’s relationship with you is unconditional. He has taken your heart. Sure you open it up for him and maybe even said take my heart Lord, but you never really expected him to take it and take it all.

Maybe you figured you could give him a piece now and a piece later but no that is not how it works. Jesus does not want a piece of you, he wants all of you, and he starts by taking your heart, all of it. Then over time, through worldly pain and suffering, you surrender.  It is like you say, “You took my heart Lord, and I tried to keep the rest for myself, and it is not working. I have sinned, been disobedient, and disloyal to you. I have caused problems for myself and others, and that is not who I am or who you want me to be.  You have my heart now take all of me. And sooner or later you become all his. You are in him, of him, by him and with him.  The total purpose of a Christian on this earth is for our soul to become one with Jesus.  You die to self.  You are no more, and this entire conversion process starts with Christ taking your heart.

If he hasn’t stolen your heart pray that he does. If he has taken your heart, prepare to surrender all. In his love, he cannot take a little bit of you. It is all or nothing. And when you give him all of you, it means salvation, eternal life, and when you give him nothing, it means hell, damnation. That is the way it works.