Last week I began a series of posts about how we, as Christians, need to examine ourselves (II Corinthians 13:5) to make sure we are living out what God has told us to do.
In today’s post, we take a look at the heart. I love this quote – “Whatever the heart loves the ears will hear and the eyes will see”. So my first question is this – What does your heart love the most? Now before you jump in and answer that question with a resounding “JESUS”, please really think about the question and examine your life and the way you live it.
Think about where you spend most of your time. Think about what motivates you and what drives your passions and your desires. Look inside yourself and see where a majority of your time is going. Does your heart love:
- Family
- Children
- Spouse
- Job
- Possessions
- Pleasures
- Bank Account
The list above is a list of things that are not bad things at all, but when they take the #1 spot in our lives, they become nothing more than idols that have taken the place of God.
So, whatever the heart loves the ears will hear and the eyes will see. What do you hear and see the most in your life?
Again, I am not looking for fake answers here – I am looking for each of us to really look deep inside and find the real answer that is in all of us.
Solomon warns us in Proverbs 4:23 that we must guard our hearts:
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
The definition of the word vigilance means “Alert watchfulness”. Solomon is telling us that we must always be on the alert about our heart. We must monitor it all the time because Jeremiah 19:7 says,
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can understand it?
The wisest man that has ever lived told us that we must guard our hearts because he knew that our hearts would lead us astray and would get fixed on other things besides God.
When Robert Robinson wrote the words to the song “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” , he understood a little about how the heart could lead us astray if we are not careful to guard it. He wrote these words,
O to grace how great a debtor daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to Thee;
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, Lord, take and seal it; Seal it for Thy courts above.
We must guard against a heart that is pulling us away from God. We must guard our hearts against things like our job, our money, our possessions, our family & even our church. Because if we love them more than God, our heart is leading us astray.
We need to daily pray Psalm 139:23 – “Search me, O God, and know my heart”
“Whatever the heart loves the ears will hear and the eyes will see”.
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