Sunday, August 10, 2014

Love hidden in our hearts

"Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against Thee." Psa 119:11

'Here the Psalmist found his protection against sinning. By having God's Word hidden in his heart; in having his whole being thoroughly impregnated with that Word; in being brought completely under its benign and gracious influence, he was enabled to walk to and fro in the earth, safe from the attack of the Evil One, and fortified against a proneness to wander out of the way.'

Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER  By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 70)

Psa 37:31  The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

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I have read several commentaries on Psalm 119:11, several good commentaries. The truth is right there in the words of David, the words of God given to David to speak, to record for us here and now, and for everyone throughout the time they'd been written.  If we put God's word, God's laws into our hearts truly put it in our hearts keeping it there then God's word is EVERYTHING to us. The things we keep in our hearts are everything to us. The people we place there, the things we put there are very, very special to us. You don't hold anything in your heart that isn't important to you.

Putting God's word in our hearts is MAKING it the most important thing in our life. Truly the most important thing.  Because when  God's word is the most important thing to us- it's the MESSAGE of that word, not the physical word itself, but it's TRUTH.  It is MOST important to us to LOVE God and LOVE others- this is GOD'S word which we are hiding in our hearts.

You can know all the scripture possible, you can quote the Bible backwards and forwards, and it will ALL mean nothing if you don't have LOVE.

Truly the word tells us this!

1Co 13:1  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1Co 13:2  And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
1Co 13:3  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
1Co 13:4  Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1Co 13:5  Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
1Co 13:6  Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
1Co 13:7  Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
1Co 13:8  Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
1Co 13:9  For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
1Co 13:10  But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
1Co 13:11  When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1Co 13:12  For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
1Co 13:13  And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

THIS is truth!

Unless this is our LIFE, unless we are actively suffering long, actively being kind, actively not envying, actively not vaunting ourselves, actively not filled with pride, actively not rejoicing in sin, actively rejoicing in truth, actively bearing all things, actively believing all things, actively hoping all thing, actively enduring all things then we are living a LIE. We are filling our hearts with deception, not truth when we quote scripture and then live contrary to God's instructions, God's truth then we are not loving and we are most definitely NOT hiding God's word in our heart!

LOVE is God's word! LOVE is what is supposed to be in our HEARTS and this is TRUTH.

Please, Father, Please let Your LOVE reign in our hearts, hidden there, forever hidden there so we might NOT sin against YOU! You who are LOVE!

All by YOUR GRACE!

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