Keeping our heart right with
God is a deliberate, intentional and purposeful act of the will. When we
spend time in the Word meditating on His thoughts, then we shall know His
truth. We have a choice to trust God or to trust the desires of the flesh.
Working out our own salvation with awe, respect, and love for God is
disciplining ourselves to follow in the footsteps of our Lord. Like the seed
that fell among the thorns, many Christians are choked out by the deceitfulness
of riches and the cares of this world. When there is grumbling and
complaining in our hearts, the devil will have his way with us. The word
says do all things without murmuring and disputing that you may be the children
of God without reproach in the midst of a wicked and perverse nation, among
whom you shine as lights in the world.
God often has us in His
"waiting room." The devil will say to us, "God doesn't
really care about your problem." However, the word says, "resist the devil and he will flee from
you." According to Isaiah 40:31, they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They
will mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not be weary, they
shall walk and not faint. The solution to grumbling and complaining starts
with knowing that God has our best interest at heart. Our question should
be, "Lord, what are you teaching me through this trial?" God is teaching
us that in our own strength, we cannot make it on our own. The matters of the
heart are the heart of the matter.
God has called us to speak
the language of heaven. We need to speak the "foreign language"
of our heavenly homeland. Those whom God has called will understand our
language. As the Psalmist said, "may
the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable unto thee,
O Lord my strength and my redeemer." According to Ephesians,
"let no corrupt communication
proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying that
it may minister grace unto the hearers."
God has called us not to
deliver the message, but to be the message. Live it out. We're the only
bible that some people will ever read. We're His living epistles known and
read of all men. We're God's love letters to those whom he's called us to
bless.
May God richly bless you!
Your brother in Christ, Michael
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