Have you asked God for His heart? I have, but I have also wanted to qualify that. I don’t know that I can bear it. Spurgeon talks about being stuck in bed for weeks out of every year because of his depression because of the agony of lost souls and the discouragement from people backsliding.

We can’t carry the weight of the world. The Lord does. It’s not ours to carry. We should have a burden, but we should be yoked with Christ in that burden so that we can carry it, because really He’s doing the heavy lifting.

Paul says his heart’s desire is that the Jews be saved. He also says it’s his prayer. That’s what we do with a burden. We turn it over to God in prayer. We trust Him to take care of it. We don’t carry the weight of it. When we start feeling the weight of it, we pray and give it over again.

Another burden we don’t carry is trying to fulfill the Law. Jesus was the fulfillment of the law and we have His life in us. Our law is to love others, which we can’t do, but Christ in us by the Holy Spirit can love others. The Holy Spirit poured out is God’s love poured out and it is ever flowing in and out of us.

This famous verse “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved,” is written here to Christians. It’s not written to unbelievers telling how to get saved. It’s saying that, whether Jew or Gentile, all who call on Jesus for salvation will be saved.

The Lord makes no distinction. All are blessed who are in Christ Jesus. He bestows riches on all who call on Him.

Then comes the famous call to go and share the gospel! They can’t call on Him if they don’t know He exists, if they don’t know who He is. Someone needs to go and tell them. We need God’s word written on our hearts by the Spirit, and we need to let it flow out to everyone God brings to us. That’s the heart of God, loving flowing everywhere.