Sometimes at the peak of our victories, we feel grief, we feel sorrow, we feel something is very wrong.

I have learned that sometimes in our striving for what we want, in our striving for what we think we need, in our achieving, in our doing all that accomplishment requires we push God aside, we ignore him, we neglect him and we substitute his dreams for our ambitious goals.

We have to right? God is so slow it would seem!

Then after some time…after striving is over, if we are willing to feel, we feel his sorrow and we feel his grief, like how he grieved over Jerusalem rejecting and pushing him aside, going it alone for centuries.

Today for those of us with Christ living within sometimes it is him we grieve, and it is his grief we feel within.

Luke 13:34 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

Like he grieved over Jerusalem, sometimes he grieves over us.

We mistake his grief for our weakness, and we medicate, we blame it on brain chemistry, or we blame it on the devil.  Sometimes it is not weakness, sometimes it is not illness, sometimes it is Jesus grieving within.