While eyes lust a heart is broken

How easily our hearts can be hurt. Especially when we love the person deeply, their offense against us seems to wound even more deeply. How then must God feel? He loves so much, and so intensely, and he loves so many. Here is a glimpse into his heart from

Ezekiel 6:9 NIV
"Then in the nations where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their detestable practices."

I really like how The Message puts this;
"In the foreign countries where they're taken as prisoners of war, they'll remember me. They'll realize how devastated I was by their betrayals, by their voracious lust for gratifying themselves in their idolatries. They'll be disgusted with their evil ways, disgusting to God in the way they've lived."

God's heart is broken by us. By our hearts which are so easily turned to love another, not over and above God, but just plain over Him. We know his great love for us, yet we choose to throw it back in his face by following another. And out eyes, the windows to our soul, even they show how we lust after idols. We set up idols to serve us in some way. At least that's why they used to. The Israelites had Aaron make them an idol to go before them, to lead them - Moses was just taking too long on that mountain. They needed something, someone, to serve and satisfy them, to take the place of God. Well what if God wasn't created to serve or satisfy us? What if we were created to serve Him, and, in doing that, we are fully satisfied and completely fulfilled. No wonder God is heartbroken...