Deuteronomy
6:5
And
you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your might.
What does it
mean to love with ALL your heart? If someone said to you, “I love you with all
my heart,” but in reality they seldom think of you, would they be telling the
truth?
If someone
were to love us with all their heart, we would expect them to think of us often
and speak well of us. The Bible says that the thoughts of your heart show where
your desires are as a person.
Matthew
6:21
For
where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
God expects
us to love HIM with all of our heart. He does not want a halfhearted service to
Him.
Isaiah
29:3
Therefore
the Lord said, Since this people draw near to Me with their mouth, and with
their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from Me, and their
fear toward Me is taught by the precept of men...
Often people
accept Jesus into their heart as their Lord and Savior, but it does not change
the desires of their heart, or their lifestyle at all. Why not?
Jeremiah
29:13
And
you shall seek Me, and find Me, when you shall search for Me with all your
heart.
Sometimes
people repeat the sinners prayer to accept Christ, but they did not seek God
with their whole heart, and so, they did not find Him. When we seek Him, but
not with our whole heart, we search for Him, but we do not find Him.
Even if you
have been a Christian for a very long time, if you have gotten to the place
that you no longer seek Him with your whole heart, you are having trouble
finding Him in prayer. That is because He will not be found until you seek Him
with your whole heart. Our relationship with God becomes routine and ritual
when we stop seeking Him with our whole heart.
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