Same!

Don’t trust your heart!

Thomas Kempis wrote “What, indeed, gives more trouble and affliction than uncontrolled desires of the heart?”

So many times we have heard folks say...”go with your heart”! NO!!! Until your have a new heart in Christ Jesus we should not go with our hearts! Why you might ask? 

Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?

God tells us about our hearts! They are wicked! But I have good news....Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

If we will trust Jesus we can have a new heart, one we can trust by the guidance of the Holy Spirit! Praise the Lord!

So be very careful with trusting your heart unless it is controlled by God! It will lead you astray otherwise!

Tom

This one may hurt!

Recently some men from church did a study about being a Godly Man. In this book Kent Hughes had one chapter about integrity. In this chapter he listed some things that spoke to our lack of integrity, see if any of these get you!

In a study by Sherman and Hendricks, Christians were as likely as non-Christians to:

Falsify their income tax returns
Comment plagiarism
Bribe to obtain building permit
Ignore construction specs.
Illegally copy a computer program or steal music online
Steal time at work
Commit phone theft
Exaggerate a product
Tell people what they want to hear
Selectively obey the law...like speed limits, texting and driving, seatbelt. etc.

Any of these get you? I bet the last one got most!

So as followers of Jesus we must be people of integrity and truth at all times no matter the circumstance. Even when no one is watching because God is always watching! 

Romans 3:10 as it is written:“None is righteous, no, not one; 

The reason why we are not what the verse says above?

Romans 3:18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

So how is your integrity this morning? With the power of the Holy Spirit, us followers can overcome, let’s do it!

Tom

Boast in God!

God has it!

Whom do you long for?

We are here for one reason....God. He made us to worship and glorify Him. Everything else is secondary. So let me ask you again...whom do you long for each day? Is it God? Thomas Kempis said “in YOU is all that I long for.” Can we honestly say the same thing?

Do I long for God’s Word Psalm 119:20 My soul is crushed with longing After Your ordinances at all times.

Is my complete desire God? Psalm 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but You? And besides You, I desire nothing on earth.

Do you crave God? Psalm 63:1 O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Are you working for eternity not earthly? John 6:27 "Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal."

God promises to provide for those who thirst after Him. Revelation 21:6 Then He said to me, "It is done I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost.

May we all sit down and think honestly about what our deepest desire is and if it is not God changes must be made!

Tom

God is....