Heart Check
Heart Check
Hopefully you have a few minutes to meditate on something. I read something this week that caused me to stop and allow the Spirit to plow my heart and I wanted to share it with you. The Bible speaks of how sinful our hearts are and how they are deceitful to us. It is good to allow the Spirit to do his work in our sinful hearts so that we can learn to live in the new creature that God has created within us. Hopefully this is helpful.
God’s grace is full and free. We do not, in any way deserve or earn grace. That is something that we find hard to grasp. Is anything really worthwhile, truly free? Yes, his blessings and gifts cost Jesus much but they are offered to us freely and abundantly. We are pretty OK with the abundant part, although, this side of heaven it is hard to imagine the immensity of his blessings. It is the free part that we often buck against. We want to earn grace. We want to, in some small way even, pay for grace. It is almost impossible for our sinful hearts to accept that which God offers for free. In our minds we somehow give something or earn grace in some way. Why do we do that? Well, if we are seeking to make ourselves look good we say we do that because we like to earn what we get. We are not free loaders. Ok, but think about that again. Why do we want to earn what we get? Here is what I had to allow the Spirit to plow my heart about. I want to earn what I get because I can then control what the giver of the grace asks of me. If what he gives me is truly free then he can ask of me anything and everything and the correct response would be, “Here am I, send me, Lord”. If I somehow earn, even a little bit of the blessing, then I can limit what is asked of me. How rotten am I that I try to diminish the amazing grace of God because I want to determine my own life? I want to limit the omniscient, all wise God, in determining the course and direction of my life so that I can hold on to the allusion of control in my life. It is the same attitude I find I have in prayer. I want to tell the all wise God what I want him to do in my life rather than submitting to his wisdom and love in my life. I want the allusion of earning grace so that I can reserve the right to be like Jonah and say no to the calling to obedience in my life. How did that work out for Jonah? How has it worked out, ever, in my life when I chose to walk my own path?
Lord, continue to make me fully submissive to your all wise will for my life. Help me to truly trust in your love and goodness for me life. Help me to revel in the joy of grace and to not try to earn what is freely and lovingly given. May I rest in your loving arms today as I fully give myself to you. You will never let me down. You will never disappoint. You will always do what is best.
Hopefully you have a few minutes to meditate on something. I read something this week that caused me to stop and allow the Spirit to plow my heart and I wanted to share it with you. The Bible speaks of how sinful our hearts are and how they are deceitful to us. It is good to allow the Spirit to do his work in our sinful hearts so that we can learn to live in the new creature that God has created within us. Hopefully this is helpful.
God’s grace is full and free. We do not, in any way deserve or earn grace. That is something that we find hard to grasp. Is anything really worthwhile, truly free? Yes, his blessings and gifts cost Jesus much but they are offered to us freely and abundantly. We are pretty OK with the abundant part, although, this side of heaven it is hard to imagine the immensity of his blessings. It is the free part that we often buck against. We want to earn grace. We want to, in some small way even, pay for grace. It is almost impossible for our sinful hearts to accept that which God offers for free. In our minds we somehow give something or earn grace in some way. Why do we do that? Well, if we are seeking to make ourselves look good we say we do that because we like to earn what we get. We are not free loaders. Ok, but think about that again. Why do we want to earn what we get? Here is what I had to allow the Spirit to plow my heart about. I want to earn what I get because I can then control what the giver of the grace asks of me. If what he gives me is truly free then he can ask of me anything and everything and the correct response would be, “Here am I, send me, Lord”. If I somehow earn, even a little bit of the blessing, then I can limit what is asked of me. How rotten am I that I try to diminish the amazing grace of God because I want to determine my own life? I want to limit the omniscient, all wise God, in determining the course and direction of my life so that I can hold on to the allusion of control in my life. It is the same attitude I find I have in prayer. I want to tell the all wise God what I want him to do in my life rather than submitting to his wisdom and love in my life. I want the allusion of earning grace so that I can reserve the right to be like Jonah and say no to the calling to obedience in my life. How did that work out for Jonah? How has it worked out, ever, in my life when I chose to walk my own path?
Lord, continue to make me fully submissive to your all wise will for my life. Help me to truly trust in your love and goodness for me life. Help me to revel in the joy of grace and to not try to earn what is freely and lovingly given. May I rest in your loving arms today as I fully give myself to you. You will never let me down. You will never disappoint. You will always do what is best.
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