God Wants Your Heart

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

1 Chronicles 28:9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

In much of my studying of who God is, I have noticed that He is a God with specific desires.  And one of those desires is our hearts.  Since the foundations of the world (Eph 1:3-5) God has done His part to make a way for our hearts to be like His.  He has given us Salvation, freely, without prejudice and He wants us to live in that freedom….FOR HIM.  He wants our hearts.  He wants YOUR heart.

Which kid were you in grade school?  Were you the one that always got chosen last on the playground for game time?  Or were you the one who did the choosing?  Each of you just went back to a specific moment in your lives and remembered either a painful moment or a funny one.  Did you know that with God, you are always the first chosen?  You are important to Him and have been since the beginning.  When you accepted His favor and joined up with His plans, you gave Him your heart, right?  Well, why are you wanting to always take it back and give it away to something else?  Is there a better team than God’s?  No, there sure isn’t.

On God’s team, you are on the winning team.  The undefeated team.  The team that nothing formed against it can stand.  You have the ultimate Captain whose strategies are perfectly formulated and acted out.  So, why is it that you and I want to develop our own game plan?  Are we smarter than our Creator? 

God wants our head in the game.  He wants us to give Him all of our hearts so that we don’t get tangled up in a mess.  It isn’t that He is selfish, it is just that He knows the lies our sinful nature will tell us and He wants to keep us from harm.  My mom always says, “People don’t know, what they don’t know”.  This is so true.  We don’t have the view that God does and He sees how our temporary actions will affect our future.  We don’t know what we don’t know!  But God does, and He wants our hearts.  There is nothing desirable about sinful man, but it is God’s intrinsic nature to love us and want to guide us in His plans. 

My next post is exactly that.......God being our Guide.  First, though, we need to give Him our hearts, all of it, and trust Him with our lives. If there is something holding you back from God having that full control over your heart, ask Him to help you do what you need to do in order to surrender to Him again.  Not your salvation..... that is once and it is complete. I am talking about letting Him be the One who lives through you and NOT allowing your flesh to take control. That is a daily process, but a process that should be a habit with us as Christians.  Give Him your heart.

Until next time, Lord willing,

Sheri