Wednesday, February 08, 2006
What has been the state of our hearts the past week or so? Its an important question to ask ourselves because, as the bible says, "guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life". Guard your heart. Before you can guard it, you need to know its state.
"Search me O Lord and know me". Ask God to search your heart first. Has other things replaced God in your life? Are there idols? I'm not just talking about idols along the lines of those statues with an image but no life. I'm also talking about idols like school, friends, CCA, self-ambition, sinful habits and even the love of money.
We need to clear all these rubbish if we want to love God. Jesus tells us that we cannot serve both God and money. You would tend to love one more than the other. Likewise, we cannot serve both self-ambition and God.. and the list continues.
When we start to replace God in our heart with something else, He will eventually leave without even you realising it. Let's not grieve the Holy Spirit in this, my dear brothers and sisters, but let us become a people who run after God with all our heart, who will take the trouble to find out what pleases God and do it.This brings us to the next issue (see above).
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006