Physically speaking, the heart is the most important bodily organ. Spiritually speaking, I believe the heart is the most important aspect of the spiritual body.
When God asks for your heart, His is asking for your entire life, which includes our personality, character, body, mind, and emotions. The heart is the real person, not the person everybody sees.
We can do the right thing, and still not be acceptable to God because we do it with a wrong heart. Many believers only have a halfhearted interest in the pursuit of God. They want God to take care of them, but they don't want to make the sacrifice of time and devotion it takes to grow in knowledge of Him and His Word, and they don't want to commit time to pray.
Through prayer we get what we ask for, or what we should have asked for.
Do you only pray in times of crisis? If we treat prayer like a Chinese takeout menu and God as the delivery boy then we will very quickly be disappointed. Prayer is more than a crisis resolution. Prayer is a two-way conversation.
Prayer is an acknowledgement of our need for God.
It is not our job to give God guidance, council, or direction. We can pray for the desires of our heart, but we must be ready for disappointing answers because God knows what is best for us. Sometimes He gives us what we need instead of what we want.
It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it, leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.
God is God- and we aren't. We need to recognize the truth and simply trust ourselves to Him, because He is greater than we are in every aspect and area. We are created in His image, but He is still above us and beyond us. His thoughts and ways are higher than ours. If we will listen to Him and be obedient to Him, He will teach us His ways. But we are never going to figure Him out. We shouldn't even try.
All God is looking for is a sincere heart that chooses to love Him more than self.
In His Mighty Hand,
Dalinda
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