Monday, February 16, 2015

Understand with our hearts

Mat_13:15  For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

How many people do not want to hear the truth of Salvation?
How many people do not want to see the truth of Salvation?
How many people do not want their hearts understanding Salvation?
How many people do not want to be converted and healed?

Seriously. How many people choose to live spiritually deaf, blind, and heartless?

The choice is purposefully made, deliberately decided because they lack any faith at all.  They'll call themselves the enlightened. They'll call themselves intelligent.  They'll say they don't need faith, that faith is for the weak minded. 

Being converted from unrepentant sinner to repented sinner to some is undesirable. Some do not even want to admit they sin at all.  No one will be forced into conversion. People must CHOOSE to be converted.  People must want their hearts to understand, they must want to ear and see truth and in wanting this they desire healing and healing is found in conversion.

Act 3:19  Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
Act 3:20  And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
Act 3:21  Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

Repent- choose to recognize yourself as a sinner in need of repenting, in need of forgiveness. Our sins need to be blotted out and by the grace of our LORD they will be blotted out.  Our encouraged sins thickly coated in the selfishness that binds all sin must be confessed, and repented of so we can be HEALED.  Healed of our selfishness, just imagine that.

Imagine a life of selfless serving.  It's all but impossible, and the only hope we have of it not being an impossibility is being healed by our Savior. WE cannot heal ourselves, but we must choose to let our Savior heal us. And we will be healed, and like a lot of healing there is pain before the healing is complete.

Please, Father in heaven, please we choose to be healed by YOU through the Holy Spirit by the grace of Your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, our Savior!

We repent! We confess! We bow before You knowing that we are helpless to save ourselves, we can only truth in Your mercy! Please, Father, have mercy upon us, we would be YOURS now and forever!

Forgive us!

Love us!


By YOUR GRACE! All honor, glory, and power to YOU, our God, our King!

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