My heart is desperately sick…
Charles Spurgeon said: “the heart of man is an idol factory.”
Knowing my own heart, it is absolutely impossible to change it short of God’s miracle. That is the miracle of sanctification by faith in jesus. its like getting born again - over and over again through believing in him, the supernatural nature takes over the natural. My own habits, thoughts and motives give way to His heart, His ways...
In wartime or trial times there are clear objectives. Seldom do your priorities get muddled. Survive, defeat an enemy or die. The goals are clear and we prioritize god - just to survive.
However when we come out into freedom, the evil in our own earts muddle god’s priorities. Remember King David. It was not during the trials in the wilderness that he failed or fell, it was in times of peace and stability. Where the cares and pleasures and temptations of this world start to creep in.
Peacetime and God’s promotion might be the greatest of all trials and tests. The test of our character and the true nature and quality of our hearts is exposed with authority and promotion.
The weight of our responsibilities do help - in that they remind us while undertaking them to keep our heart pure, do this or that with a right motive, that we might please God in them. Thus helping to purify our hearts.
In times where we seek to escape our responsibilities, like David who stayed behind to escape, when it was time to bear the burden of warfare, we are apt to be tempted and distracted from our God’s purposes and goals and when we lose sight of them, like Samson, we become blinded by temptations and fail.
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