What’s on your heart? What is your most important pursuit? What breaks your heart? What makes you most excited? These are the things that God changes when a person is saved by God!
“God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us.” Acts 15:8 NIV
Do you find your heart being transformed? Or are you still pursuing the things of the world with a spiritual language? I find that it is possible to simply change our outward behavior and language and not have a heart transformation!
If all you long for and strive for are things on earth! If the people that you admire and look up to are those who have stuff on display! If the things you quarrel about and are angry about are all natural things! If you are not burdened that people are lost all around you! You may not be a disciple of Jesus! Or you have lost your love as a disciple.
It is possible that you find yourself struggling with the new heart that God has given you! I have found myself in this position time after time! I find myself not willing to spend that extra hour in prayer for others. I don’t want to go on without certain comfort of life that I know I can easily get by spending a few months in pursing some business idea or by keeping the money we have! In fact, I have made elaborate plans about some ideas only to find out that the good idea is a distraction to me.
When I am distracted like this, it is because I have looked away from the Lord and allowed the cares of this world to grab my attention.
Although this has happened from time to time, I also know that my greatest desire is to see Jesus glorified and our Heavenly Father magnified every where! I repent and receive grace to get back on track.
What does it mean for Jesus to be glorified?
It means that you are satisfied with Jesus! You are committed to His vision of making disciples of all nations! You are excited by the progress of this mandate! You are fully invested in making disciples. You are prepared to lay down your life if necessary so that one more or many more of these children of God may come home! No sacrifice is too much for you to make as a person to minister to people around you as you obey the Holy Spirit! It means that you have no life of your own but you live the full life of Jesus with unspeakable joy and peace that is beyond understanding!
God knows your heart and my heart! He knows what excites you! If you need to repent, do it now and enjoy the new heart from Jesus! Do you know that when God becomes everything to you, many things that trouble other people would not trouble you?
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