“I know Jesus live in my heart, because when I put my hand on it I can feel him walking around in there.” -From the book "God is Closer Than You Think" by John Ortberg.
I am truly thankful for each and every beat of my heart. It is my life source. It is so very important. We know that without it's beats we could not survive. Half of the time we are not even aware of our heart. So many of us don't even think about what we need to do to take care of our heart. We just live our lives and take it for granted that our heart will keep beating; giving us life. The times that we notice our heart the most is when it is breaking or when our heart is sick. It is then when we are sorry for not doing everthing we could to take care of our heart. But if we are careful to always be aware and do the best that we can, we can save ourselves from the feelings of regret.
Jesus' spirit lives in our heart. It is because of Jesus that we can live forever with God in heaven. Jesus is our life source. Just as we need to take care of our heart so we can live a long healthy life on this earth, we need to take care of our relationship with Jesus so we can live an eternity with Him. Just as we take our heart for granted it is so easy to take Jesus for granted. You ask Him into your life and He promises to never leave you nor forsake you. We need to be very careful to always be aware of Jesus. We have to make every effort to enter into his rest. We have to take care of our relationship with Him. Because if we are not careful we could find ourselves one day just living our lives and taking for granted that our Jesus will always be there; giving us life. He doesn't want us to just think of him when our lives are falling apart or when someone we love is sick. He wants to be close to us everyday.
I am working really hard this year to spend more time with my beloved friend and Savior. I want to always be aware of His footsteps on my heart. I need to spend more time with His word, and I am trying to remember to talk to Him about every part of my day. I know that the closer I get to Him the more I will trust Him and the more confidence I will build. The biggest desire that I have is to reach out to others more for him. This is a scary thought for me. A thought that I am not real comfortable with. But it is a desire that is growing more and more in me each day. I think that is why I feel so much discontent when it comes to my spiritual life. I have taught Kid's church, and I teach a preschool bible study now. I have lead women's groups and I sing in the choir and I am on the praise team. Those are all great ways to share about God and His love for His children but they are safe and easy ways of doing it. The people come to me. I want to go out and reach the hard to reach. That is what I loved about the EACH campaign I was a part of last spring. It forced me out of my comfort zone; made me go up to complete strangers and share a little with them about God's love. I want more of that. I think it might be time for a new season in my life.
Christ the Center.
2 Corinthitans 5:17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has gone, the new has come.
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