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Ezekiel chapter 21, verse 6.

As for you, son of man, grown with breaking heart and bitter grief,

groan before their eyes.

This is God telling Ezekiel to groan with a breaking heart and bitter grief before people, before God's people.

And just to go on, the next verse says, when they say to you, why do you grow?

And you shall say, because of the news that it's coming, every heart will melt and all hands will be feeble. Every spirit will faint and all knees

will be weak as water. Behold, it's coming and it will be fulfilled, declares the Lord God. Basically,

judgment is coming. So God is telling Ezekiel, groan before them, like, see, this is a time for groaning, that there is coming. So God is telling Ezekiel groan before them, like, see, this is a time for groaning,

that there is reason for broken hearts and bitter grief, because if people do not turn and

trust in God, repent of sin, then their destruction, their judgment is coming.

So I'm reading this and I'm just driven to ask in my own life and in your life.

Like, are you and I ever groaning with breaking hearts over people in our lives, friends, coworkers, neighbors, family members, family members who are separated from God by their sin right now and have not turned and trusted

in Jesus.

Like there should be times when we are groaning with breaking hearts and bitter grief, certainly before God calling out, crying out for their

salvation, and then to an extent before our friends and neighbors and coworkers and family

members to say to them with broken hearts, please turn and trust in Jesus.

So do we weep and grieve and groan to use this word from Ezekiel chapter 21 verse 6 for the lost around us knowing

that judgment is coming for all who do not trust in Jesus.

God we pray that you would help us to groan like this.

God, give us your heart, breaking hearts in this sense for the lost around us,

for those who are apart from you and their sin, who have not been reconciled to you through Jesus.

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