Pump My Heart With Your Love
“It’s lovely to be poor and free from so many things.” ~ Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa truly knew how to apply Hebrews 12:1-2, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith…”
Mother Teresa burned with two longings: to love the souls of this earth and to love Jesus as Jesus has never been loved before. In order to love in this way, she had to seek the heart of God, not her own. For only God can love the decrepit souls on earth and His Worthy Son like none other. I don’t know that I have developed such a longing and love that Mother Teresa had. Yet, I want to.
The more I know Jesus I realize I have to continuously take two very important steps to make this love a reality in my heart. First take my eyes off the dirt, the trash, the disappointments and harsh limitations of the souls God presents to me in my life. True faith is lived in the hope for things not seen, not in the reality of things here on earth. Secondly, to run forward with eyes of God’s grace, seeing beyond the moment asking, “What can be? A choice to live daily in the unknown can only be accomplished by knowing Him only.
Note in Hebrews it says to throw off “…everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles…” What is interesting is that some things simply hinder and sin entangles. Hinder means to delay, thwart, impede, and obstruct. What good things delay you from developing the same longing to love as God loves? Entangle means to snare, noose, lasso, and capture. What sin has you so noosed that love cannot even find its way in your heart? As Mother Teresa says, “It’s lovely to be poor and free from so many things.”
Make me poor in my heart, Lord; strip me, Lord from that which delays love; beat the sin; sift it out; take away the evil that bridles my spirit from Your affection. Pioneer, perfect and fix my eyes, so I can feel my heart pumping Your love.
