You've gotta have....Heart!
All you really need is heart!
When the odds are sayin'
you'll never win, that's when the grin should start!
You've gotta have hope! Musn't
sit around and mope.
Nuthin' half as bad as it may
appear, wait'll next year and hope
When your luck is battin'
zero, get your chin up off the floor.
Mister, you can be a hero. You
can open any door.
There's nothin' to it, but to
do it. You've gotta have heart!
Miles and miles and miles of
heart! Oh, it's fine to be a genius of corse!
But keep that ol' horse before
the cart! First you've got to have heart!
I've been humming the tune for days
and it brought several Scriptures verses to my mind this week and thoughts
about the heart of us:
“Above all else, guard your
heart for it is the wellspring of life.”
(Prov. 4:23)
“A heart at peace gives life to the body but envy rots the bones.”
(Prov. 14:30)
“A happy heart makes the face
cheerful.” (Prov. 15:13)
“A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones". (Prov. 17:22)
We learn in Scripture that God commands
us to take care of matters of the heart. How do we take care of our heart? We
guard against things that are not of God. We resist the lies that the evil one
speaks into our mind. We spend time reading God’s Word so that His truth can
sink deep into our spirit and soul – our heart.
Having any bitterness or
unforgiveness in our heart certainly is not of God. If somebody has hurt you in
the past, if you are upset with God or you haven’t forgiven yourself concerning
an issue of your life, your heart is probably not right with either God,
yourself or another person. God would want us to take this issue to Him
prayerfully so that we don’t carry this burden in our heart. Doing this frees
us up on the inside so that more of God’s Spirit can direct us.
A pearl to string: Our heart is the wellspring of all life. It
is at the deepest level of our heart that God lives in us with His Holy Spirit.
He will not share space with anything that’s not good, pure and holy.
"Since
He hath looked upon me my heart is not my own.
He hath run away to heaven with it".
Samuel Rutherford
Know that you are loved,
Lyndi
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