Is your heart in it? I have to ask myself that question from time to time just to make sure I’m doing what I should be doing. Time and time again in the Bible God lets His people know that He wants their heart not their sacrifices. He may have commanded the sacrifices but He wants them to be delivered by way of our heart, our desire, not our obligation of legalism, or our fear of condemnation.

But, I don’t think it stops there. It’s not only our service, devotion, and love to God that should come from the heart, it’s also our love for one another, the dedication to our vocation, and even what we do for relaxation. We enjoy doing, and being what our heart desires. Is your love for God what it should be? If not where’s your heart? Do you love your spouse the way you used too, or even more than you did when you were first married? If not where’s your heart? Are you sick of your job? Where’s your heart?

If you have answered any of the above questions, and found that your heart’s not in it, what should you do about it? Well you change it. You don’t change your God. You learn to love God the way He loves you. You don’t change your spouse. You look inside your self to see why your love has changed   You can change your job, but even that requires you to look inside your heart in an effort to find what God made you to do.

Let me ask a couple of questions in an effort to really bring my point home. Can you reach down with your bare hand and wipe the snot from your child’s nose without giving it any thought? Can you reach down and wipe the snot from the face of a complete stranger’s kid with your bare hand without some serious consideration? What’s the difference? I say it’s love. I say it’s having a heart that’s in it.

Till next time,

Grump