I sincerely believe that there are many things that cause pain to God. On many of them, there is the indifference to sin. When the man gives the same to sin that not to sin.
Sin saddens the heart of God. And those who really walk with him are sad as well.
In the days of Noah "The LORD saw that the wickedness of men was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually. And the Lord repented that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart "(Genesis 6: 5-6)
The Hebrew word used here means "Cut to the heart." It also means "Injury." The wickedness of humanity hurt God deeply and caused him a lot of pain in his heart.
As the old and well-known saying "Create crows to get your eyes out" says, I believe that God was disappointed in the human race.
We as children of God must be very careful, not to hurt the heart of God living a disorderly, sinful life, etc ...
When we sin that hurts God.
Sin separates us from God, and for this it hurts God; because he wants to be always close to us.
I am convinced that the only way to know the fullness of Jehovah's joy is to share in his sadness. David was a man who discovered the glory of Jehovah's joy, but that joy was born of a great sadness for the transgressions among the Lord's people. He said: "I saw the transgressors, and I was displeased because they did not keep your words" (Psalm 119: 158).
"Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and I harden myself against your enemies?" (Psalm 139: 21)
David hated what God hated, and he was saddened by what saddened God, and he detested what God hated.
The prophet Amos cries out against "The rest in Zion ... and they do not grieve for the brokenness of Joseph" (Amos 6: 1,6)
He shared the sadness of God for a misguided people who delighted in rest and prosperity, without thinking of the hour of imminent judgment, while they slept in beds of ivory (materialism) singing their music, drinking wine, but without having sadness for the ruin that surrounded them.
Amos used the word "afflict" as if to say: "Sin and ruin among the people of God does not afflict you. They do not dislike you because the sin and the good life they enjoy now have blinded them "
Nehemiah was sad because he understood the evil that had infiltrated the house of God.
An errant priesthood had brought a terrible compromise to the Lord's house, and only Nehemiah understood the depth of the iniquity and the terrible consequences it would bring to the people (see Nehemiah 13:19).
The high priest Eliasib, whose Hebrew name suggests "unity for compromise" He had established a residence in the temple for Tobias, an Ammonite prince. By law, no Ammonite was allowed to set foot in the temple, but Tobias, whose name means "prosperity, pleasure, good life," was allowed to live there; A Gentile in the house of God.
Transigence means: "Consent in part to what is repugnant, in order to reach an agreement" To agree in part with the bad, to be able to live in peace with it.
There was now something new in the house of God. A corrupted ministry allied with paganism. The people of God longed for prosperity and the good life; and Tobias was ready and willing to teach them the materialistic path of idolatry. "Eliashib the priest, being the head of the chamber of the house of our God, had a kinship with Tobias" (Nehemiah 13:14)
Nehemiah understood the evil that abounded sponsored by a soft priest in his attacks against sin. "I asked the king's permission to return to Jerusalem; and then I learned of the evil that Eliashib had done in consideration of Tobias, making him a chamber in the courts of the house of God. And it hurt me greatly; and I threw all the furniture of the house of Tobias out of the chamber, and said to clean the chambers, and I brought back the utensils of the house of God there "(Nehemiah 13: 6-9)
Nehemiah did not act on impulse or legalistic tradition! I saw with the eyes of God, feeling as God felt and understood the evil of the mixture, the compromise and the cancerous growth of sin in the house of God.
If more leaders understood the evil of the mixture of music, the invasion of fun, the greed for materialism that exists now in the churches, as Nehemiah would grieve for it and take it out of the church again.
I believe that the church should be asking God: God give us a group of preachers and parishioners to grieve over sin and the mixture of paganism and Christianity, and take a stand against it!
The leaders should ask: God give us members in our churches with sufficient discernment to understand the depth and horror of the compromises and sinfulness that invade the house of the Lord!
Paul was sad because the people of God went astray. He warned: "Because many people go there, of which I told you many times, and even now I say it in tears, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ; the end of which will be perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is his shame; Who only think of the earthly "(Philippians 3: 18-19)
Children do not indulge in sin, because the holy spirit that dwells in us convinces us of sin, we are people according to the heart of God, the worst thing that can happen to a human being is losing the presence of God, and not even know it.
The Greek word for "crying" means here "the sigh in a loud and piercing voice coming from a broken heart".
Seeing the believers turn to earthly things, rejecting the reproach of the cross, broke the heart of the apostle Paul to such an extent that he shuddered with the sadness of God. It was not a silent despair or a sigh of resignation for the wayward, but a high, piercing and moving cry of a man as he entered God's sorrow for his wayward children.