You gotta have Heart

1 Samuel 12:24
Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart:...

Exodus 35:35
Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart,...

The last verse is concerning the craftsmen in building the tabernacle.

The Lord desires people who will follow Him with all their hearts.

God loved David because he was a man after God's own heart.

Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Luke 12:34
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

This Christmas season, check your hearts and see that there is room for Him. Ask the Lord to create a clean heart and set your hearts after Him. Filled with His Word.

A clean heart will lead to a joy, peace, and love.

Work, how hard is that?

John 6:27-29

²⁸Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?

²⁹Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

Galatians 5 19-23

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

²⁰Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

²¹Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

²³Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

For some reason, when I read the word and the verse about they will know us by our works, I thought hand wringing, sweat jobs. Those are the easier jobs. The harder work is the heart.

It's easier to feed the homeless when the results and gratification come quickly.

But the works of the heart are another story. No one knows when you have bitten your tongue to keep from lashing out in anger. No gratification at that moment and it is usually an ongoing battle.

The Lord looks on the heart.

The world will notice when we walk in humility, and the peace that rests on us because we believe and have given our hearts to the Lord, walking in the fruits of the Spirit.