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What do you weep about? We can always look around and find something to weep about. The door bell don?t work, the house is a mess, the lady at the hair salon gave me a dirty look, the pastor preached too long on Sunday, and I gave a word of knowledge to the church, while no one would look at me.
The word Shallow is what comes to my mind, when we rend the garment, but not the heart, and weeping over nothing but temporal issues, that have nothing to do with the deep things of the heart.

The Lord declares to us to fast and weep before Him, to rend the heart and not the garment. He is concerned about the inner heart of His childeren, because the heart is where the well springs of life reside. It is not in the superficial garments of outer appearance, or those small temporary issues that are insignificant interruptions in our lives.

The real issue will always be about the condition of the heart.

Joel 2:12-13 New International Version:

Rend Your Heart
"Even now," declares the LORD,
"return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning."
Rend your heart
and not your garments.
Return to the LORD your God,
for he is gracious and compassionate.

In the Evening, when Jesus wept in the Garden of Gethsemane, He was rending His heart.

When was the last time you wept to the Lord and rendered your heart, because you Love Him? Like I said before, we can find a lot of things to weep about, but what about weeping for Him.

Psalm 30:5 New International Version:

For his anger lasts only a moment,
but his favor lasts a lifetime;
weeping may remain for a night,
but rejoicing comes in the morning.

I have heard it said, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste," and maybe so, but I think "A heart is a terrible thing to waste."

Blessings,

Claudette Moss
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