How is your heart?

The hardening of the heart ages people more quickly than the hardening of the arteries.

Are you suffering from a hardened heart? Is your heart so set on your self, your opinion, your needs that you have lost feeling. Is your heart as hard as a mill stone. Are you past feeling? Rod Mattoon in his commentary "Treasures from 2 Samuel, Treasures from Scripture Series" shares a wonderful poem for you to consider today.

How is your heart? Is it yielded to the Lord? If we are going to be anything for the Lord, our heart must be surrendered to Him. When we look at the Lord’s prayer, we find that it flows out of the heart of one committed to Him. It ought to be the attitude of our life.

An unknown author put it this way.…

* I cannot say “our” if I live for myself.

* I cannot say “Father” if I do not endeavor each day to act like His child.

* I cannot say “who art in Heaven” if I am laying up no treasure there.

* I cannot say “hallowed by thy name” if I am not striving to live holy.

* I cannot say “Thy kingdom come” if I am not doing all I can to hasten it.

* I cannot say “Thy will be done” if I am disobedient to His Word.

* I cannot say “in earth as it is in Heaven” if I’ll not serve Him now.

* I cannot say “give us this day our daily bread” if I am dishonest.

* I cannot say “forgive us our debts” if I harbor a grudge against others.

* I cannot say “lead us not into temptation” if I deliberately place myself in its path.

* I cannot say, “deliver us from evil” if I don’t put on all the armor of God.

* I cannot say “Thine is the kingdom” if I do not give the King the loyalty due Him from a faithful subject.

* I cannot attribute to Him “the power” if I fear what men may do.

* I cannot ascribe to Him “the glory” if I’m seeking honor only for myself, and I cannot say “forever” if the horizon of my life is bounded completely by time instead of eternity.

Guard your heart against hardness.

The hardening of the heart ages people more quickly than the hardening of the arteries.