heartbreak and lostness

We believers have a constant heartbreak staring us in the face all the time, as we consider our unsaved loved ones. They have no idea of a heartbreak. They do not know they are lost and they revel in that ignorance ~~ we see that terrible lostness and fall on our faces before the Throne.

We have Paul's anguish in Romans 9:1-3

What about God's heartbreak at the time of Noah?

Genesis 6
5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of men was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And the LORD was sorry that He has made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
7 So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
In verse 22 we learn that...
Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.

Note Noah's OBEDIENCE.

We are told in Genesis 6:3b ...yet his [man's] days shall be one hundred and twenty years.

The witness of Noah and his family building this huge ark (what is that??!), when there had never been any rain on the earth up to that time, must have seemed ludicrous to everyone. We can imagine them shaking or scratching their heads whenever they happened by the ark-in-progress during those one hundred twenty years. But they never bowed the knee to their Creator.

What about Jesus' heartbreak as He looked out over Jerusalem?

Luke 19
41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it
42 saying, if you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

Matthew 23
37 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
38 See! Your house is left to you desolate;
39 for I say to you, you shall see Me no more, til you say, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!'"

The people of that time, like our unsaved loved in this time were not willing to...

Romans 10
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him will never be put to shame."

This is the only thing that will make for your peace!