Tag: God

Do Not Under Any Circumstance Listen to Your Heart

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“What does your heart say?”

“Do what your heart tells you.”

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

This is one of the dumbest things we can tell ourselves and others.

Absolutely not, under no circumstances, go with your heart.

Our hearts cannot be trusted. Our hearts are fickle. It is unreliable. It is amoral. It has no boundaries. It has no loyalties.

I struggle with my heart all the time. I know what to do. I know what God’s word says. But my freaking heart doesn’t like what God says. So everything in me, all of me, every fiber of my being wants to do this thing. And, yet, God’s word tells me do this other thing. And my heart fights with all its might against God’s truth and God’s will.

My heart is my enemy. It betrays me.

I want to do what God wants me to do, but there are so many times my heart, flat out, betrays me because it seeks to do that opposite of what God wants.

So what are we to do?

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5).

  1. Trust in the Lord. Do not trust your heart. It is a traitor. It will betray you and who God created you to be. Trust in the Lord. He has your best interest. God knows best what is best for you. Trust in the Lord.
  2. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Your heart is to submit and obey God. It is only useful when it submits to God’s truth.

This is much easier said than done. I struggle with my heart multiple times a day. Multiple times a day, my heart betrays me. I have to continually realign my heart, flesh, and mind to God.

Under no circumstances, absolutely not, never ever trust your heart.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart.

 

Scarlett Johansson’s Movie “Lucy” and the Church

Screen Shot 2014-08-06 at 4.47.49 PMThat was just wrong!!! What a crock!

That was my sentiment walking out of the movie theater after watching Scarlett Johansson’s new movie “Lucy.”

All the trailers and commercials for the movie made it seem like it would be an action flick where Scarlett Johansson’s character kicks butt over bad guys. So when my wife and I went to the theater, that’s what we expected to see. That’s what we paid to see.

What we got, instead, is some new-age, badly spiritualized theory of evolution, sic-fi, psycho-babble.

They tricked us!

I wasn’t the only one. I heard others muttering similar sentiments as they were walking out of the theater.

False advertising. What a waste of my time…

As I have been thinking about this movie, I’ve been wondering about church.

The church is good at talking about how God changes everything…How much and what has the church really changed? How much impact has the church made in our world?

I can’t help but wonder if the church promises one thing and then when people show up they experience something totally different.

That’s just wrong! They tricked me! What a crock!

God, I don’t want to merely go through the motions of church. I want to experience the eternity changing, culture shaping, life altering, community impacting ministry of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. I don’t want to just read about all the great things you did in the past in some ancient book. I want to see the power of God lived out and lived through the church today!

God, I stand with the prophet Habakkuk who cried out, “Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known” (Habakkuk 3:2).