GIVING AWAY OUR HEART – OUR LIFE PURPOSE
March 10th, 2009 categories: Grazing Spiritual Pastures
Here are some thoughts on Proverbs 12:11 (NAS):
He who pursues worthless things lacks sense (Literally, heart).
- All we really have in life (both to give to the Lord and others) is our hearts.
- We fall short of our purpose in God because our hearts are shut down, wounded, divided, and even deceived. In this condition, worthless things are pursued … not necessarily always due to rebellion … but because that is what a shut down, wounded, divided and deceived heart does.
- Worthless things keep us from truly “owning” our hearts. They perpetuate the dead end process … because it is a process filled with lies, darkness and hiding.
- We cannot fully find Jesus until we find our hearts, until we come out of hiding and become honest with the condition of our hearts, the good, the bad and the ugly.
- God does NOT condemn sinners. Rather, He condemns hearts that want to go their own way, that are unteachable, hardened. He does not condemn an honest heart. Rather, it is the open door to His Salvation.
- God’s Salvation to us is that He gives us a new heart by giving us His Holy Spirit.
The promise of Ezekiel 36:25-27 was that God would create in us a new heart. He says, “I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes.”
How I read this is … At Salvation, God places within each of us His Seed … which is a deposit of His Nature in us. Through the workings of His Spirit within us, He works (in time) to “trump” anything in our heart that is not in line with His.
At the same time, His Spirit enables us to pray in the spirit, worship in the Spirit, receive gifts of the Spirit, etc. …. all as a Gift … a Gift that is not a function of the condition of our heart … Yet, it is all for the purpose of transforming our hearts to be like His … which, technically, is the “new heart” we are given … His heart joined with ours.
- If we respond to His Spirit honestly and humbly (e.g., if we are teachable), we find our true hearts … the true person of the heart … His heart joined with ours.
- Once found, we have the opportunity to give it away … to fulfill the destiny that God has for us. It’s all we really have in this life to give away … our hearts.
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