There are small things and seemingly harmless things that we welcome into our hearts and lives. These thoughts, affections, desires, motives or emotions appear unexpectedly, uninvited. Yet like cold strangers in the warming comfort of friends, they soon make themselves at home.
If ignored, after a while these strangers become friends; these small things become big things; these secondary things become primary things; these good things become ultimate things. What once we were suspicious of or convicted by, we now ignore or embrace.
Be careful!
Be careful of the things around which your heart will grow. Like tree roots around rocks, your heart will grow steadily, slowly and securely around thoughts, affections, etc., making it nearly impossible to dislodge them.
If left to itself, the heart will always turn inward; it will always seek to satisfy itself. The heart is charmingly deceitful above all things (Jeremiah 17:9), ever expanding and reaching and grasping for what it blindly believes can satisfy its needs and desires. It is ever swallowing as much as it wants of what it wants.
What do you really want?
If uprooted like a great tree, what would be found clenched tightly in your heart? If cut open like the belly of a great fish, what would be found digesting inside your heart?
Let us yield and give our thoughts, affections, desires, motives and emotions to God, the One who truly loves us, who fully knows us and who clearly discerns our needs and what we should really want. He has not left us to ourselves!
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