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Wandering Heart





You were born with it and so was I.  

My heart (my thinker, feeler and doer as my husband says) loves to take me down trails I shouldn't go!  

Thanks to Adam and Eve we have inherited that in the fall.  Jeremiah 17:9 says that, "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?"  

Our hearts-that inner core of humanity has to be guarded at all times.  It is deceitful and throws us off course.  It covers, lies and manipulates the truth in order to feel good.  I've included a commentary below if you would like more study.

I don't like to think this way about my heart but of course it is true anyway. 

Like it or not.  

It is part of me that I have to tackle on a daily basis in order to serve and love God and my family with all my heart and in truth! 

Do I love God with a whole heart? 
With all of my thinking, feeling and doing?  
With every bit of my resolution and devotion?  
My family?  
Do I serve God with singleness and passion that can only come from a whole heart-undivided?

I'm up a creek without a paddle if left to my own effort!!!!  

Thank God that He wants to teach me and show me His way and give me an undivided heart.  I can't do it on my own!  Psalms 86 is an awesome chapter and one that my focus will be on for a while.  

  Hear me, LORD, and answer me,
   for I am poor and needy.
2 Guard my life, for I am faithful to you;
   save your servant who trusts in you.
You are my God; 3 have mercy on me, Lord,
   for I call to you all day long.
4 Bring joy to your servant, Lord,
   for I put my trust in you.
 5 You, Lord, are forgiving and good,
   abounding in love to all who call to you.
6 Hear my prayer, LORD;
   listen to my cry for mercy.
7 When I am in distress, I call to you,
   because you answer me.
10 For you are great and do marvelous deeds;
   you alone are God.
 11 Teach me your way, LORD,
   that I may rely on your faithfulness;
give me an undivided heart,
   that I may fear your name.
12 I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart;
   I will glorify your name forever.






Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThe heart is deceitful above all things,.... is in general true of the heart of every man; which is "deceitful", and deceiving; and puts a cheat upon the man himself whose it is: it deceives him with respect to sin; it proposes it to him under the notion of pleasure; it promises him a great deal in it, but does not yield a real pleasure to him; it is all fancy and imagination; a mere illusion and a dream; and what it gives is very short lived; it is but for a season, and ends in bitterness and death: or it proposes it under the notion of profit; it promises him riches, by such and such sinful ways it suggests; but, when he has got them, he is the loser by them; these deceitful riches choke the word, cause him to err from the faith, pierce him through with many sorrows, and endanger the loss of his soul: it promises honour and preferment in the world, but promotes him to shame; it promises him liberty, but brings him into bondage; it promises him impunity, peace, and security, when sudden destruction comes: it deceives him in point of knowledge; it persuades him that he is a very knowing person, when he is blind and ignorant, and knows nothing as he ought to know; and only deceives himself; for there is no true knowledge but of God in Christ, and of a crucified Christ, and salvation by him; 

Comments

  1. Carolyn Evaine CountermanSeptember 26, 2011 at 10:06 PM

    I think I got here from a link from a link from a link. Maybe. Awesome post. I need an undivided heart.

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  2. Heather Ann GillSeptember 29, 2011 at 4:31 PM

    So glad to meet you Carolyn!! Let's seek one together!

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