The Heart Is Deceitful! By Nanyamka Boyer
Greetings my beloved reader, and fellow brother or sister in Christ, our Lord. It is my prayer that as you read this blog post, you and your loved ones are in good health and in good spirits. If not know that to the trial of your faith there is a season and that joy cometh in the morning, as it says in Psalm 30:5 "For His anger endureth but a moment; in His favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."
On this day let us remember that our hearts are deceitful above all things and are desperately wicked, and we cannot trust it, unless our desires agree with His Word, as the Lord tells us in Jeremiah 17:9-10 "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings."
So we must remember to always discern our hearts desires and to see if what we desire is in agreement with the Word of God and if it's not in agreement, to cast down those vain imaginations that are not of God, as our Lord through our beloved brother Paul the Apostle tells us in 11 Corinthians 10:5 "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled."
We must not trust our hearts, if what we desire does not agree with His Word, for then we will be wise and right in our own eyes, as the Lord tells us to not be in Proverbs 3:7 and will be lead to death, or by dying before our time, by being at the wrong place at the wrong time, or by putting ourselves through sufferings later on in life that we do not need to be going through for not obeying the Lord through His Word and by not being in the center of His will for us.
Remember that the wages (or the penalty or the result) of sin is death, as it says in Romans 6:23 and what our beloved brother James, the brother of Jesus, says in James 1:15 "Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death." And also that "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." As it says in Proverbs 14:12.
As we become saints of God and get purified or sanctified through the trials and tribulations that we go through in our lives, we must daily guard our hearts with all diligence, as the Lord commands us to do in Proverbs 4:23 "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." And if you recall what the Lord tells us in the gospel of Matthew what proceeds from the heart of man in Matthew 15:19 "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man."
So as we can see these are the issues of life that proceed from our hearts that we must guard against in our hearts, so we don't get defiled or get spiritually unclean before the Lord and hurt others along with ourselves along the way. For the fruits of the Spirit that we must bear or express in our lives, are the fruits of the Spirit that the Apostle Paul mentions in Galatians 5:22-23 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."
So when we get these evil thoughts in our minds, we must remember that they sometimes come from our hearts or from the enemy of our souls, Satan, speaking to us, through our thoughts. And we must cast down those vain imaginations, as mentioned above and guard our hearts, as the Lord commands us to do with all diligence (or with careful and persistent work or effort).
And ask Him to create in us a clean heart and to renew a right spirit within us, as our beloved brother and King David prayed to the Lord after he sinned against Him with Bathsheba who was a married woman, and by having Uriah (Bathsheeba's husband) killed, after committing adultery with her and getting her pregnant.
We can read this story in 2 Samuel 11. This he prayed in Psalm 51:10 "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free Spirit."
And where is the Lord's presence you may ask? The Lord's presence is every where on this earth, as He is omnipresent. If you recall what the Lord says in Jeremiah 23:24 "Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD." For if the Lord wanted to cast him or us away from His presence, King David means, it would be from the presence of Him in this world and we would be cast into hell. And this is why he (King David) begged the Lord to not cast him away from His presence and to do not take away His Holy Spirit from him, because without Him, we are nothing, can do no-thing right, as the Lord says and cannot obey Him or approach Him in prayer, as we desperately need Him to help us make it through our trials and tribulations, to heaven and through our lives in this world.
So let us remember to daily lean heavily upon our Lord, for He is here to help us with anything and with everything we need and will ever need in our lives, whether it is a spiritual, emotional, mental or physical need, but mostly our spiritual needs, as our great need is to make it to heaven and in order for us to do that, we must yield to Him and to His ways daily. Through the obedience of His Word and through the obedience of His Holy Spirit, by submitting to Him. And we cannot obey His Word without His Holy Spirit. For it is He who enables us to do the impossible, when it comes in obeying the Lord our God.
May we always see and remember this that we need Him for all things in this world, especially for our soul's salvation from eternal damnation in hell. For once saved is not always saved, unless you are walking in obedience to Him daily, through His Word and through His Holy Spirit.
Have a blessed day and go with God! And remember that we can do all things through Him who strengthens us to do it, as the Apostle Paul understood and mentioned in Philippians 4:13. Blessed be His holy name, for He truly made us rich or complete in Him!
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