Friday, March 24, 2017

Our Hearts — Part 2

What are we keeping in corners of our hearts for ourselves? Whatever it may be, it is hindering our joy, hindering our communion with God our Father and with the Lord Jesus Christ, and it is definitely hindering our spiritual growth, and our testimony for Himself. Let’s judge it, and give Him the full and first place He desires. He alone can fill and satisfy the human heart! He has entreated us: My son, give Me thine heart” (Proverbs 23:26).

Here are the words of a hymn that perhaps sum it up very well:

Lord, we are Thine: Thy claims we own,

Ourselves to Thee we’d wholly give;

Reign Thou within our hearts alone,

And let us to Thy glory live.

May it be so in each of our lives, until the Lord Jesus calls us home to Himself in the Father’s house, where our hearts will be centered fully, and undistractedly on Him for eternity. Here is a good daily prayer for all of us, “Give me understanding, and I shall keep Thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart” (Psalm 119:34).