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Heartbeats

Day 155

Reading: Psalms 51:1 - Psalms 60:12

One of our greatest desires from friends and even to friends is to convey our inner heartfelt passions and thoughts. What separates many people from being close to anyone is the usually a matter of the heart. You don't tell everyone your inner musings. The happenings within a person dictate a lot of what, where, who, why and how they behave or are as a person. The heart as we know from biology is a vital body organ that pumps blood around the body. Without this function, one is classed as dead. God is interested in our hearts. God pays attention to the state of the heart.

David understood that sin deadens the heart. Thus he cried to God to create in him a new heart. David understood the importance of a heart that is alive to God. Sin cuts us off from the place God has ordained for us. God desires an intimacy with the heart and sin is a barrier to this. See your heart as a place God desires to commune with you. See your heart as a type of a garden of Eden and you will understand the gravity of sin. Let your heart beat be one that is full of a purity and hunger for God free from the shackles of sin.

Another desire we see of the heart in the Psalms is that of the heart being postures as contrite and broken. God hates pride. God loathes arrogance. God is pleased by a heart that is broken before Him. This brokenness is a type of humility where one understands the correct posture to have before God. Being broken in the heart is not just about having the correct perception of God towards sin. It's also about having the correct attitude towards God's Presence. 

The conversations of the heart are as important as the words one speaks. Actually, the happenings inside determine a lot of what we see outside a person. That's why God takes a stern view of the fool who says there is no God. The fool is not just speaking outwardly. However, the fool has within themselves postured and determined that God doesn't exist. Whatever situation you are passing through learn to acknowledge God. Don't be classed as a fool because you have decided within your heart that God is not able to be God over that matter that is troubling you.

Every time I read the Word I pray that my heart will be sifted. That God will remove all that is not of him within me that I may stand upright. Learn to daily examine your heart and see if there be anything that is speaking against your wellbeing in the Throne of God. Let your heartbeat draw you closer to God.

Memory Verse: Psalms 60:12

Decree:

Psalms 59:16
But I will sing of Your power; yes, I will sing aloud of Your mercy in the morning; for You have been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble. (italics mine)


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