Only living people bleed.

Only living people bleed. I came across of that phrase at a leadership conference a few weeks ago. I wrote it down in my notebook not really understanding it at that time, but somehow I knew it was important. Only living people bleed.

I tried thinking about that phrase in the context of our hearts. We all have a heart. It pumps blood to our entire body to provide the necessary chemicals for us to stay alive.

Only a heart that lives for God bleeds. If we start thinking in the context that our heart start aching when we come across injustice, doesn’t that also mean that our heart is hurting (bleeding)? I remember saying this prayer when I was younger. I told God that I wanted to have His heart. Not knowing what it really meant (I still don’t), I felt proud about it. But now as I look back, God is slowly opening my eyes to the things of His. It means that we replace our heart with His. We begin to see things the way God sees. Our heart begins to hurt when we see injustice. Our hearts are filled with His compelling love to forgive our enemies. We begin to feel for the broken and the lost.

Although I have not fully understood who God is and what He is capable of doing (No one can), but I think I have a clearer picture for myself of what it means to have God’s heart, and that is feeling the pain and sorrow of people. Just as Jesus was moved with compassion for the sick and needy, we are to follow in His footsteps. But I must also say, that God’s heart is not subjected to only the sick and needy. God is sovereign and He loves everyone the same.

God’s heart for us is to be like Him. God’s heart for us is for us to prosper. No one can be God, but we can be like Him. It is imperatively important for us to come to that understanding that God sees us all the same. We are all His children bought by the blood of His son, Jesus.

When we spend a lot of time with a group of people, we begin to find ourselves more like them. Similarly, we become more like God when we spend more time with Him. By reading His Word, which is life, and talking to Him through prayer, we understand His ways more and more.

So may I suggest one thought? Our heart is only “living” when we begin to have a heart like Christ.