All Your Heart

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God says He is a jealous God!  He tells us, "Trust in the Lord with ALL YOUR HEART and do not lean on your own understanding.  In ALL your ways acknowledge Him and He will make straight your paths."  Proverbs 3: 5-6  Then in Jeremiah He says,  "You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with ALL YOUR HEART."  Jeremiah 29:13.
This makes me wonder if I am really giving my all.  So I pray and ask God to show me if there is any place in my heart and life I have not given Him.  I have always loved the little pamphlet, My Heart Christ's Home http://navigatorsdetroit.com/MHCH.pdf. You are welcome to look it up and read it. I was introduced to this booklet in college and have never been able to see my heart any other way since.

You can purchas it here: "My Heart Christ's Home" 

I often see my heart as Christ's abiding place and wonder how many nooks and crannies I have left unclean.  It isn't company clean because Christ lives there, not as a guest but as a resident.  Christ is a good inspector and He does find those places when we ask Him and He does clean it up step by step.

It seems like Bible Study after Bible Study I come back to this theme, that I need to just give it all to Him.  I am so thankful that God does not give up on me and He continues to give me convictions, direction and guidance.

Seeking His truth!

Now, in case you think this is letting you know that I have a "holier than thou" attitude, I don't.  I have a secret but it isn't going to be a secret for long.  I am a sinner.  I have been saved by grace BUT I still have a problem with sin.  Romans 6:6 says, "We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin."  Unfortunately that old body of sin that was crucified keeps popping up in my life.  Someone once described it as having an old dead carcass  that you have tied to your ankle and you keep dragging it around with you.  When I realize I have been sinning I actually feel the stench of it. It is humbling and it is a time let go of one more spot that I have been hanging on to or I let creep in.  Notice I didn't tell you what the sins were because we as humans want to put sins on a scale and you might say, "Ah that was nothing" or "Wow, I'm not as bad as her."  Comparing sins and labeling them as "Not so Bad" and "Really Bad" doesn't work.  Sin stinks no matter which one it is.   It is easy not to recognize it sometimes because after all "everybody else is doing it." But God calls me to give Him ALL OF MY HEART,  not just the convenient parts.