For
From The Heart
Come
Evil Thoughts, Murder, Adultery, All Sexual Immorality,
Theft,
Lying, And Slander.
Scripture
Matthew
15
19 For from
the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual
immorality, theft, lying, and slander.
Observation
“Guard
your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your
life.”
Proverbs 4:23
… Garbage
in … garbage out!
Taking
care of my spiritual heart is even more important than taking care of
my physical heart, but if I am not careful I will tend to neglect
both of them.
For
those who are not followers of Jesus Christ Matthew 15:19 is a
picture of their spiritual condition and nothing that they do should
surprise us!
But
we are warned to guard our hearts and from our lives should flow
something totally different if we are committed followers of Jesus
Christ. From our hearts should flow: love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
and self-control.
So
it is time for a heart check up! Lets review what has been flowing
from our hearts! Maybe we need a new heart ... a heart transplant.
Maybe some major heart surgery is in order.
Remember
this verse and lets be on our guard - “The
heart is the most deceitful thing there is and desperately wicked. No
one can really know how bad it is!”
Jeremiah 17:9
Application
I
will guard my heart today. I will ask the Lord to show me anything
that shouldn't be there. How about you?
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, it is way too easy to neglect both my physical heart and my
spiritual heart. Don't let me do either one. I know the dangers of
neglecting both. Show me anything in my life that needs to go and
help me to confess those things to You. Give me a clean heart Lord. I
want to be able to be used by You. I want to walk in a close
relationship with You. Don't let me do stupid sins, sins that would
come between us.
I
pray for anyone reading this blog who has allowed themselves to be
caught in sin. Give them the strength and the courage to confess the
sin and to get back in a close relationship with You.
Daily
Bible Reading: 2 Samuel 3; 1 Chronicles 12; Matthew 15 … I added
Psalm 28, Psalm 58; Proverbs 28
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