Know My Heart

Where does your value lay? 

Do not rely on your past achievements, great though they have been. Perhaps the bringing up of a child, the enlarging of your skills, or the leading of people to know me. Reliance on achievements past can lead to you taking on assignments that I have not conceived in my plans.

I have cheered you on and my son Jesus has interceded for you throughout your life. I saw you at school as you were learning some tiny part of the wonders of my natural creation. You have ‘made the grade’ in so many ways, including learning of the spiritual world. You are mine to mould and I love your malleability in my hands. Yet your worth is not decided by what you do, as you live out each day.

One thing that I desire is your undivided attention. You have mine. Don’t just know about me, how I work, as though you were understanding biology.  In your pursuit to live a life worthy of what my Son, Jesus, died for, die to yourself each day. Each day, bring what you have in your hands, including your time and jobs, your sadnesses and your joys. I will accept them as a pleasing sacrifice. Find out what is on my heart and prioritise that.

Activation: Consider what you have physically, and metaphorically, in your hands. Leave these at Jesus’ feet and then lift up your heart in thankfulness that even without all these things you still have the eyes of the God of creation on you, caring, loving, and leading you each day.

John 16:24 (NIV) 

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.

Matthew 6:26 (ESV) 

Look at the birds of the air, they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?