Greater Than Our Hearts: 31 July 2001
What is this? Suddenly my heart is scheming how to become more Christlike? I was thinking this morning about my attitude towards my possessions and how different it would be if I considered them Jesus' possessions. This is crazy. A week ago I couldn't even look at Him, and now I embrace him into my character? It seems to be a radical shift.
Ever since I read that thing about bench-pressing 350, I've been more relaxed about sin. Not in that I'm seeking it out and being silly about it, but that I'm not consumed with superfluous guilt about it. I'm not so stressed about it, I'm just being really... I'm alloweing God to show me His patience and encouragement and lack of condemnation.
"Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in His presence whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything." (1 John 3:18-20, NIV) I like that. "For God is greater than our hearts," that strikes me as beautiful. I was talking to Rev RH about the song Trading My Sorrows this morning. I asked him to explain it to me. He looks at it from the viewpoint of not living like those who have no hope, and crossing over from death to life. I'm cool with that. He's a good guy, and I like to get him going. He has a good, if not zealous, heart.
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