Don't Cry

“Don’t Cry but Do”

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□ Bono

•   “ Africans are dying each day of preventable, treatable diseases—

  AIDS, malaria, TB—for lack of drugs that we take for granted. This statistic alone makes a fool of the idea many of us hold on to very tightly: the idea of equality. . . . Deep down, if we really accept that their lives—African lives—are to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. It’s an uncomfortable truth.”

•   “We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies—but will we be that generation? . . . We can’t say our generation didn’t know how to do it. We can’t say our generation couldn’t afford it. And we can’t say our generation didn’t have reason to do it. It’s up to us.” (In Richard Stearn’s The Hole in Our Gospel 104, 105)

□ Jesus

•   PORTRAIT #1
  •   Luke 19:41—“As he saw the city, he over it.”
  •   The Great Controversy: “. . . the world’s Redeemer was overwhelmed with a sudden

    and mysterious sorrow. He, the Son of God, the Promised One of Israel, whose power had conquered death and called its captives from the grave, was , not of ordinary grief, but of intense, irrepressible agony. His tears were not for Himself, though He well knew whither His feet were tending. Before Him lay Gethsemane, the scene of His approaching agony. . . . Not far distant was Calvary, the place of crucifixion. . . . Yet it was not the contemplation of these scenes that cast the shadow upon Him in this hour of gladness. No foreboding of His own superhuman anguish clouded that unselfish spirit. He wept for the doomed thousands of Jerusalem. . . .The Majesty of heaven in tears! the Son of the infinite God troubled in spirit, bowed down with anguish! The scene filled all heaven with wonder.” (18, 22)

  •   He weeps over a city and a world.
  •   We must come to the place where what the heart of God

    our hearts, too.

  •   Portrait #1—God over the lost.
•   PORTRAIT #2
  •   Luke 15:5-7, 9-10, 22-24
  •   Henri Nouwen: “ belongs to God's Kingdom. God not only

    offers forgiveness, reconciliation, and healing, but wants to lift up these gifts as a source of joy for all who witness them. In all three of the parables which Jesus tells to explain why he eats with sinners, God rejoices and invites others to rejoice with him. . . . All these voices [of the shepherd, the woman, the father] are the voices of God. God does not want to keep his joy to himself. He wants everyone to share in it. God’s joy is the joy of his angels and his saints; it is the joy of all who belong to the Kingdom.” (The Return of the Prodigal Son 113, 114)

  •   Portrait #2—God over the found.
  •   We must come to the place where what the heart of God

    our hearts, too..

  •   And what is it that breaks and then elates God’s heart?
•   Just look at Jesus—heartbroken over the and ecstatic over the !

  It’s the truth about God—because of the lost and the found, He lives with a , heart.

 Earth’s death rate—2/sec, 120/min, 7200/hr, 172,800/day
 How many of those are going to a Christless grave?

•   “O God, please give me Your happy, broken heart.”

  John Wesley:

Do all the you can,

By all the you can,

In all the you can,

In all the you can,

At all the you can,

To all the you can,

As long as you .