It's not so easy to just put stuff into the blog without going through some soul searching moments. Oh how easy it is to speak forth the truth of God's word and to share with tens of thousands of people and somehow drift away from the Lord. The heart is indeed deceitful...who can understand it?! We can easily worship the Lord with our lips even on a regular basis and yet the heart can be so so far away. The unfortunate and scary thing is that it can go unnoticed. The longing of our heart daily can be 1% or 10% for the Lord but the major part of our longing can be for our own hearts' desire for other things
I have been thinking a lot lately about the "Discipline of the Heart". Is it "Devotion" or "Deception", is it for Him or for myself. Just had an interesting article from Singapore that talks about the Singapore government. I think there's a lot of wisdom in it. It says that the reason why Singapore failed (they lost a seat, what a failure) is because they never thought about failure. It is true that no one plans to fail but the thought of it should keep us on our toes and to cover every loophole we can think of so that we won't fail.
This is not to be a paranoia and to dwell on failure and self pity but rather to be humble and to constantly recognise that without the Lord we will fail and that we should guard our hearts because it is the wellspring of life (Prov.4:23). The prayer of the Psalmist in Psalm 51 needs to be applied regularly for safe guarding our heart.
Thy word have I kep in my heart that I might not sin agaisnt Thee. It has to be loving God with ALL OUR HEART. Trusting God with ALL OUR HEART, and seeking God with ALL OUR HEART. Is this asking too much, I asked myself? Obviously not!!! Since without Him we are nothing and we have nothing.
THANK YOU LORD FOR BEING OUR GOD AND OUR ALL, WITH ALL OUR HEARTS.
Kenny G.
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