June 5, 2016
MY FRIENDS, ABOVE ALL ELSE GUARD YOUR HEART!!
“Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.” Prov. 4:23 (NASB) My friends, it’s personal today because when we talk about one’s heart or mind, we are talking about one’s anatomy that cannot be exchanged with our neighbor down the street. A transplant is incapable of producing any results of who we are spiritually in the sight of God. In addition, it is the heart that changes the entire trajectory of our life where we begin to call, evil good, and good evil; [and we begin to] put darkness for light, and light for darkness; [and] bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Is. 5:20 (NKJV)
And friends, this change can take place “in a moment in a twinkling of an eye.” How else can we explain the narrative in 2 Sam. 13, where Amnon the son of David loved his sister Tamar. And not as a brother would love another sibling but as one would love their spouse. Consistent with this, he loved her so much that he became distressed and physically ill. And so he plotted, and the plot turned into him physically rapping his sister.
(v,15-17) tells us, as soon as he finished this great sin against God and man, “he hated her exceedingly, so that the hatred with which he hated her was
greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, “Arise, be gone!”………..Then he called his servant who attended him, and said, “Here! Put this woman out, away from me, and bolt the door behind her.” My friends from love to hate “in a moment in a twinkling of an eye.”
This is why it is so personal, because only God’s Spirit can change our life in the “discipline and instruction of the Lord” Eph. 6:4 (ESV) and not in just a “twinkling of an eye” But from the point we begin the process of eliminating self and establishing a personal relationship with Christ His word and Spirit, all the way throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity. But we must have a passion to love God and serve God.
Amnon’s life ended with his brother Killing him. What a tragedy brought on by Satan when we don’t guard our heart. But then you have Moses who was raised from a Child to a man of forty years old in Pharaoh’s court. But it was the early years of Moses life where His parents taught Him to love the Lord with all his heart and soul. And to always guard the heart against enemy infiltration for “this is essential for a life without sin,” “for it is out of the good treasure of [our] heart [that] brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart [will] bring forth evil.” Luke 6:45 (NKJV)
Remember, “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it [except the one who made it and who can change it, except the one who made it?] Jer. 17:9 (NKJV) “So Moses left Pharaoh’s court after killing an Egyptian and fled and became a dweller in the land of Midian, and for forty years God transformed His heart into one where He had a passion to love, and defend God.
And he lead the children of Israel out of Egypt to the threshold of the promise land, “after he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years……. Acts 7:23-36 (NKJV) And now my friends, He resides in the courts of Heaven. Oh the power of the love of God when “we guard our heart”
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