MY SON, GIVE ME THINE HEART.

 

June 29

 

 

Proverbs 23:26  

My son, give me thine heart, 

and let thine eyes observe my ways. 

 
Beloved, the Most High presents Himself as a suitor this morning.
 
He asked for thy heart.
 
It is His workmanship, He wants it to be His habitation.
 
He made it by His power, He wants to rule it by His grace.
 
He will not be satisfied with anything else.
 
If He have the heart He has all; if He has not the heart, He has nothing.
 
Let us surrender our hearts to Him this morning and every morning.
 
Let us ask him to sanctify them by His grace, to fill them with His Holy Spirit, to engrave on them His image; to keep them by His power, to fill them with the fruits of holiness.
 
If the heart is given to God, the life will be according to His word.
 
If He rule in us, we shall walk as Jesus walked.
 
If our walk is not holy, our religion is but a form.
 
“He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”
 
Oh, how awful, to think and profess that we are the Lord’s, and yet to have the heart under the influence of sin, Satan, and the world!
 
Jesus says, “MY SON, GIVE ME THINE HEART.”
 
Let our reply be, “Lord, take my heart, reign and rule in my in it for ever.”
 

O Jesus! wounded the Lamb of God,

Come, wash me in thy cleansing blood;

Take my poor heart, and let it be

For ever closed to all but thee;

Unloose my stammering tongue, to tell

Thy love immense, unsearchable.

 
James Smith