Giving Your Heart....

The bottom line in life is all about how we see and relate to God. Some would call it submission (the reason many don’t), but I would call it “giving your heart” to God. Just keeping this simple, knowing God, our Creator, is the only way to truly know ourselves. Without His truth, we spend our entire lives pursuing things, thinking we will find ourselves, only to discover it never delivered on its promise. The only way to truly know yourself is to know the One Who made us. His reasons, purposes, and character qualities show us our reasons, purposes, and character qualities. It’s like looking into a mirror; you can look into a reflection of glass, or water, or something else, but it will not compare to the clarity a full-fledged, silver-backed piece of glass reflection that a genuine mirror produces. When we fully give our hearts to God, we get back a heart that knows the “Why” of life. We may not know all the answers, but we do know where our significance comes from. We know Who to rely on, allowing us to stand on solid ground in tumultuous times. It gives us hope, not in ourselves, but confidence in the One Who doesn’t change and always does what He says He’ll do. It brings peace knowing He has our best interest at heart. And most importantly, when we give our hearts to God, He transforms them from a stony heart, with a limited ability to love, into a living, heart of flesh that has the capacity to love beyond its sinful limits; a true, real, and rewarding kind of love. Giving your heart to God may seem scary to some, but I know it’s the only way to live. And it’s exactly what He wants from all of us.

8 Then they will not be like their ancestors–stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful, refusing to give their hearts to God. Psalms 78:8