Abiding in sincerity God, you want me to be completely sincere with You. You know me and yet You require honesty on my part in my relationship with You. I realize just how much I lose when I allow any kind of impurity to come between me and You. The smallest compromise has the potential…
Tag: heart
Journals of abiding (5)
Abiding in love God, Your love is always available for me. It is ever patient and kind and it is always willing to flow through me to the world around me. My tendency is to lean towards the opposite- impatience and unkindness. You teach me to look at others through Your eyes of love and…
More than just reading.
Approaching the Bible with our heart. There are so many different kinds of Bibles out there. Sometimes, we buy one just because it looks appealing to us. For some, it’s hard to choose their go-to Bible because they have accumulated so many. There is also the option of reading the Bible on your phone, and…
Hidden.
A story of what takes place in the heart. The sun shines warmly through the trees. It is so quiet yet so foreign. It seems like forever ago when she used to take walks and God walked close beside her. The moments were filled with holy echoes of eternity. In those days, the quiet used…
A moment of stillness (88).
Don’t trust your heart. The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable—who can understand it? Jeremiah 17:9 The world tells us to trust our heart but the heart is a very unreliable guide. Up one day, down another- the heart is nothing but deceitful. In fact, this verse says that the heart is…
A moment of stillness (82).
Prepare your heart. For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up the unplowed ground; do not sow among the thorns. Jeremiah 4:3 The soil of our hearts is deserted and hardened. We often think that it is God who changes our heart and forget that we also…
The Eyes of My Heart 