What To Do WHen Your Heart Is Not Right

My Utmost For His Highest

 

‘This verse says, “If you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you . . . .” It is not saying, “If you search and find something because of your unbalanced sensitivity,” but, “If you . . . remember . . . .” In other words, if something is brought to your conscious mind by the Spirit of God— “First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift” (Matthew 5:24). Never object to the intense sensitivity of the Spirit of God in you when He is instructing you down to the smallest detail.’ CHAMBERS

 

If your actions ever wronged another person? Have you been hurtful?  Have you been unjust?  Your actions caused a rift between you and another person? Has the Holy Spirit brought that person to mind?  That is called the conviction of the Holy Spirit.  There is no place in the Christian’s life for sin.  You cannot approach a holy God with sin in your heart.  That sin might be against someone or it might be an attitude of your heart … whatever it might be, you must deal with it.  When the curtain that covered the access to the holy of holies was torn in two, Jesus gave us access to the Father.  But not under any circumstances … Before you enter God’s presence, you must “wash your feet”. It is so easy to become casual with the creator God, but in doing so, we deceive ourselves.  I am not referring to salvation .. but having a clean heart …

 

Don’t slip into the delusion that sin does not matter .. that God doesn’t care about it .. that Jesus paid the price for it .. so we can just move on and forget about our transgressions against God.  Not so. Paul wrote ….   Romans 6:1-4 “What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.”

 

In 2 Samuel 12, the prophet Nathan confronted King David over this sin.  He had Uriah killed so David could cover his sin with Bathsheba.  David could not go to Uriah in this case, but he realized that he was unclean before God.  Psalm 51 “Create in me a clean heart o God and renew a right spirit within me.”  Let that be your prayer today.  Set things right with men and with God. ELGIN

 

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)