Leftovers

"These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught."  ((Isaiah 29:13))

Does it break your heart, God, when you give us your best and we give you our leftovers?
Does it break your heart, God, that you gave your precious, only Son and we smile and nod and say, "Jesus died for me? Yeah...that's nice..."?
Does it break your heart when you are perfect in faithfulness and we are perfect in faithlessness?
How do you feel, God, when you tell us to pick up our cross and follow you and instead all we do is a wear a cross around our necks?
Do you become sad, God, that you created people with free and yet we choose to become robots in our worship?

But check out the first part of the next verse...

"Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder.."

Astound.

He hasn't given up on us. God is saying, "Even though these people are robotic and consumed with the outward appearance instead of the heart, I am going to blow their minds. Check out what I am going to do!"

Someone recently told me that God is a gentleman.
He is willing to wait for us.
Yes, he yearns for a relationship with us.
He wants to woo us with his love, give us the best he has.
And yet. Because he loves us. He chooses to wait for us. 

The question is...if God gives us the best He has...then why are we still giving him our leftovers?