“What you say flows from what is in your heart.” Luke 6:45b
Over the past few weeks I’ve had several instances where I felt God was pointing out that some of my ideas, attitudes, and actions are not exactly Christ-like. My convictions have brought me to the point where I need to ask God to show me the corrections I need to make as apart of my minute by minute pursuit to become more like Him.
It is my desire, as is should be yours, to begin living out what Paul says in Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God.” In order for this to become a reality for you and I the core of who we once were should have been thrown away when we accepted Christ as “the author and perfecter of our faith.” (Hebrews 12:2) At the point of our conversion the very beat of our heart should’ve begun to find the beat of our Creator. At that point my ideas, attitudes, and actions should have miraculously changed by removing all my pride, impatience, hypocrisy, and selfishness.
However, we have interrupted God’s conversion process at the point of salvation. We received His power to cleanse all of our past sins and while they were being cast to the east and west we packed up our futures thinking the work was done. We left the operating table after our old heart had been removed but before God could make the transplant complete with the new heart He handcrafted. This now leaves us with the knowledge of how to ask for forgiveness without the power to leave our life of sin.
I’ve discovered the root of my problem and what I need to do in order to allow God to fully live in and work through me. I’ve got a heart problem and I need God to take complete control of it if I’m ever going to be completely transformed.
“A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart.” (Luke 6:45) Everything that I say and do that contradicts God’s love for me and others comes from my heart.
Until we allow God to complete our heart transplant we will continue in the habits that damage the perspectives of the people God has called us to reach.
Let’s begin to seek the heart of God not just the provision of his hands.
Prayer: “Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me.” Psalms 51:10
Over the past few weeks I’ve had several instances where I felt God was pointing out that some of my ideas, attitudes, and actions are not exactly Christ-like. My convictions have brought me to the point where I need to ask God to show me the corrections I need to make as apart of my minute by minute pursuit to become more like Him.
It is my desire, as is should be yours, to begin living out what Paul says in Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God.” In order for this to become a reality for you and I the core of who we once were should have been thrown away when we accepted Christ as “the author and perfecter of our faith.” (Hebrews 12:2) At the point of our conversion the very beat of our heart should’ve begun to find the beat of our Creator. At that point my ideas, attitudes, and actions should have miraculously changed by removing all my pride, impatience, hypocrisy, and selfishness.
However, we have interrupted God’s conversion process at the point of salvation. We received His power to cleanse all of our past sins and while they were being cast to the east and west we packed up our futures thinking the work was done. We left the operating table after our old heart had been removed but before God could make the transplant complete with the new heart He handcrafted. This now leaves us with the knowledge of how to ask for forgiveness without the power to leave our life of sin.
I’ve discovered the root of my problem and what I need to do in order to allow God to fully live in and work through me. I’ve got a heart problem and I need God to take complete control of it if I’m ever going to be completely transformed.
“A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart.” (Luke 6:45) Everything that I say and do that contradicts God’s love for me and others comes from my heart.
Until we allow God to complete our heart transplant we will continue in the habits that damage the perspectives of the people God has called us to reach.
Let’s begin to seek the heart of God not just the provision of his hands.
Prayer: “Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me.” Psalms 51:10
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