How’s Your Heart?
Services today at Life House were great! It was a blessing to see new faces, hear people singing to the Lord, watching the slide show about our youth and the 7th – 12th grade day camp and hear them speak. It was great to share the Word and see the Lord moving in the service. I preached this morning on “How’s Your Heart?”. So many times Christian people feel that because they have been saved that their heart is totally, at all times, right with God. IT’S NOT. As a matter of fact – you can I both know that SOME Christians are the most judgemental, critical, negative people you could find anywhere. So many christians feel that because they “look holy”, “dress holy”, and APPEAR to have it all together that they are better than those outside the church. WRONG! You can look, dress, smell and act – HOLY – but you can still be UGLY inside! You can have an unclean heart…aheart filled with bitterness, gossip, hatred, prejudice, control, unforgiveness and evil thoughts. God does NOT look on the outside as most people do – He looks on the inside. I for one struggled early in my ministry with being judgemental towards men with long hair, earrings or people with tattoos. I usually didn’t even know the people I WRONGLY assumed that they weren’t as good as me or that they really weren’t “good people” since they had that type appearance. I was totally wrong! In the past few years God has enabled me to “get past” that. I’ve met some of the most sincere, godly people who have all or some of those traits listed above. It’s been my blessing to get to know REAL people. People who have a past (and don’t we all) and live REAL. They don’t try to be something they are not – they simply are sinners saved by grace seeking to live for the Lord. So tell, how’s your heart? Are there some places that you need to allow the Lord to come in, wipe clean and help you with? By the way – be careful. If a man says he has no sin – he’s a liar and the truth is not in him. Not my words – they are HIS. I’m glad to be a part of a church that loves PEOPLE -just as they are. One that doesn’t see color, past or the outside. They look at the heart and desire to help all people come to know Jesus. What a blessing!! Pastor James