I see a picture of a woman holding broken things that represent people around her, in her hands. She is standing before God with her full hands held up to Him. She is demanding that He fix them. He wants to take her into His Arms but she is holding so much. If she would drop the broken things then He could pick her up and hold her close.
Matthew 16:24-25 Then Jesus said to His disciples, \”If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. \”For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.\”
Philippians 2:7 6 Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to cling to, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross.…
Luke 13: 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling.
Luke 14:26 If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters — yes, even his own life — he cannot be My disciple. 27 And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.…