The Management of Our Hearts

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Human rationalization leads us to believe that everyone at some level has a good heart.  God's Holy Word emphasizes that the opposite is true.  The human heart is corrupt.  Without Jesus Christ, the human heart is in fact deceitful above all things.  Is it no wonder that in today's news that we see evil called good and good called evil? 

As a society, we have pushed God and His Son out of the picture.  Collectively, we have placed our confidence in ourselves and others.  The result has been in accordance with God's Word.  We now find ourselves in a culture that is desperately wicked.  We see leaders that are delusional.  We live among a people who mock the name of Jesus and persecute those that follow Him and choose to live by His standards.   

How could all this happen?  Does God not know how incapable we are to manage our own hearts?  Of course He does.  That is why He gave us His Son, Jesus, to be Our Savior.  That is why He gave us His Holy Spirit to open our minds and hearts to see the way, the truth and the life that is Jesus, to prepare our hearts to receive Jesus as Our Savior, and to mold our hearts to surrender to Jesus as Our Lord, Our Master and Our King. Through His perfect love and forgiveness, Almighty God allowed us to take the management of our hearts out of our own wretched hands and place it under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. 

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You for revealing the wickedness in our hearts.  We thank You for providing Your Son, Jesus, so that we have a way to overcome our desire to be the rulers over our own hearts.  We praise You for giving us the Holy Spirit to inspire us to turn our hearts over to Jesus. We pray that the lost around us may know the true nature of their hearts as they see the difference that Jesus Christ has made in our hearts.  We ask all these things in the name of Jesus Christ, the Refiner and Purifier of our hearts.