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Robert Boyd Munger wrote a
little booklet that meant a lot to me when I was younger. It is entitled My Heart - Christ’s Home. Through it’s simple journey it asks the
question, Is your heart Jesus’ home, or is He just a guest? Is He authorized to touch things, rearrange
stuff, throw garbage out?
I must admit that I have often
wondered if I truly believe in God’s omniscience and omnipresence. I really behave as if God is not everywhere
and does not know everything. We share
my heart space, we’re flat mates, but I still stash my naughty stuff under the
bed and think that He doesn’t know about it.
Isn’t that odd. I’m like Adam and
Eve hiding in the bushes, thinking it will be even remotely interesting playing
hide and seek with GOD!
The fact is, God already knows
all of my secrets. Psalm 139 is a
beautiful and intimate picture of God’s knowledge of my heart, but it starts
with a very frightening sentence. “O
LORD, you have searched me and know me!”
This would be terrifying indeed if God was not absolutely good.
We enter into this relationship
with Him with the confidence that He is worthy of our trust and hope. He is our healer and the lover of our soul. He never uses the knowledge He has to harm
us, but invites us, in light of that knowledge, to enter into a desperately
honest relationship with Him.
It takes some Christians years
and others decades and decades to give Jesus permission to look under their
bed, but why would we wait? Ask yourself
what you’re holding on for? I find that
no matter how long I have walked with Jesus, I start stashing stuff in new
hiding places and have to ask that question all over again.
Honesty with others is
hard. Honesty with ourselves can be even
harder and I don’t think that anyone can do it alone, period. Anyone who is serious about really letting
Jesus have the deed to the house, must be in deep, honest relationships with
other believers. Through their eyes we
begin to get a deeper glimpse of our own hearts, our struggles and our subtle
deceptions.
Giving Jesus our heart is not a
simple decision to make, it is a project of immense proportions. But in the end it is really not about the
finished product. For the rest of our
lives we will work on these things. It
is the journey that takes us deeper in our relationship with the Father and
deeper into relationship with His Bride.
Now that is a journey worth taking.
Revelation 3:20 “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If
anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with
him, and he with me.”
MY HEART YOUR HOME
Your Name Brings Healing
Your Face Is Beautiful
Your Grace is All I Need
Your Stripes Have Made Me
Whole
So With My Life I Worship You
And With My Tongue I Praise
You
And With My Hands Raised To
Your Throne
I Make My Heart Your Home
Your Not Just A Guest
Anymore
(I’m Giving All To You)
I Bring This Heart To You
It’s Not Like It Was When It
Was New
It’s Been Broke and It’s
Been Torn
But I Would Make It Wholly
Yours
Because…
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