Message from Scripture: 11/23/2020

 

Our message from Scripture today is Heb. 3:13; “Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God."

 

Approximately 50,000 heart transplants have taken place worldwide, with over 3,500 being performed each year, and many more than that  needing to be done. The physical organ of the heart is not the only type of heart transplant needed in the world today. The writer of Hebrews reminds us of the importance of the heart, the inner person, and the role it plays in our relationship with God.

 

Sin works two ways on our hearts. It first deceives us into think that wrong is right, that its way is okay with God’s way. By appealing to our desires, it makes itself palatable and acceptable. Once deceived, it hardens our hearts, our consciences, thoughts processes, motives, and attitudes. It seeks us to accept it over everything else, that it may rule over us, without us ever questioning it, thinking about it, realizing what has taken place.

 

Spiritually speaking, we need a new heart, one that is open and honest with God and His word, one that genuinely cares about the spiritual. We need hearts that seek what is right and good from pure motives, being persistent, having a genuine spirit that is touched by the love of God. This is what enables us to do the will of God from the heart (Eph. 6:6), to please Him, to be blessed by Him, to have His precious promises, to look forward to the hope of eternal life.

 

Heart disease is one of those problems that has often been called the silent killer, because it’s gradual, working over time. So is the problem of spiritual heart disease. Let God create in you a new heart, one that is shaped by Him and His love, cleansed by the blood of Christ, that draws us to Him, to His life, His will, His promises. David asked God, “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me” (Psa. 51:10). What a change that can make in us if we seek it. God bless.

 

Robert