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Give Up Your Heart

    Where is your heart? We all would like to say that our hearts belong fully to Jesus, but for most of us it isn't the case. Our hearts belong to our husbands or wives, our friends, our children, our passions, our possessions, etc. All Jesus wants is our whole hearts to belong to Him. It doesn't mean we can't love our friends and family; it simply means that He comes above all else.

    Take a second to think about this: if you lost it all today-- everything in your life that you love-- would you still be able to make it? Would you still love God when all was said and done? I pray that are all able to say yes someday. Job went through this exact thing. It was all taken away from Him, but when He remained steadfast in His love of the Lord, He got back everything and more.

    Give Jesus your heart today and don't take it back just to give to someone or something that will just break it. He will never leave us heartbroken and empty like any other worldly pleasure. We were always designed to be in love with Jesus and that's when we are truly happy. Trust in Him and love Him with everything you are.

Mark 12:30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. (NIV)

Matthew 6:21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (NIV)

Job 1:20-22 At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship and said:
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked I will depart.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
may the name of the Lord be praised.”
In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing. (NIV)

Mark 10:21-22 And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. (ESV)

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