He answered and
said unto them,
Well hath Esaias
prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written,
This people
honoureth me with their lips,
but their heart is
far from me.
Mark 7:6
Do we just say what God wants to hear? Or do we really mean
it in our hearts? Is what comes out what is really in our heart?
We may be able to fake living for God, but not for long.
Eventually whether or not God holds our heart will become very apparent. Have
we been hypocrites? Or have we really been serious?
God knows. He really does.
We say the right things, but do we mean them? We do the
right things, but do we mean it? Are we living our lives to please God, or to
please others?
Are we more worried about what the people around us think?
Or what God thinks?
Does Jesus hold our hearts? If he does, what others think
WILL NOT matter. Pleasing others won’t be our priority.
Does HE really, truly hold our hearts? Are we willing to do
WHATEVER he asks of us? Or are we only willing to do it if it is in our comfort
zone?
Do we leave our options open, or do we “give God certain limits”?
I once heard a
story of a man who was called to be a missionary to Africa, I believe. He was
married with 3 little boys. When they got over to Africa, his wife started to
worry about the deadly snakes. In fact, she became so inconsolable, that he
decided to return to the States. So, they came back, and moved into a mobile
home somewhere down south, in the middle of nowhere.
One day 2 of his
little boys were playing under their mobile home, and discovered a rattlesnake
nest. They did not realize the danger they were in until they were bitten. The
man got his 2 little boys to their vehicle and rushed them to the hospital. His
youngest son was playing in the
driveway, and as he backed up, he unknowingly ran him over{killing him}. His
wife was watching everything from the house, and rushed out to get her youngest
son… As she was carrying him back into the house, she had a heart attack and
died.
The other 2 boys died
either on the way, or at the hospital.
That day, this man
lost his whole family… Why? Because God asked him to go someplace, and he
disobeyed, because he was worried about his safety…He didn’t want to step
outside his comfort zone, even though God wanted him there. In the end he lost
2 of his sons to the same thing he had come home for….Probably if he had stayed
there, everyone would have been fine, because Africa was where God wanted him
to be.
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy
of me:
and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not
worthy of me. Matthew 10:37
Does God hold your heart? If he does, then doing His
will/serving Him will be the focus of our life. Does something else hold your
heart, like friends, guys{or girls, if you are a guy}, books, movies, internet?
It will be easy to tell, because these other things will be the most important
to you.
God should be the focus of our life, and he won’t be unless
you give him your heart…
