Lord Fix My Heart

Most people are concerned about their outward things such as their job, their transportation, health, safety, a place to live, material possessions.  We spend a pretty good portion of our lives tending to these things and praying about them.  Our priorities are not always God's priorities.  Now, in the economy that we are living in today what could possibly be more important than your JOB?  When taking prayer request the three things that people request the most is for their finances, their health, and their kids or family members, these are what weigh on our hearts. 

What is God's concern for us?   God does care for those things that we care about, but his priority is your heart.  God wants to fix the condition of our hearts.  What is the condition of man's heart? 

 In Ezekiel 26:36  God says that man has a heart of stone.  One of the problems of this world is that too many people have hard hearts.  How does out heart harden?  Our hearts harden as we go through life and someone steps on our heart.  Over time our hearts become like hardened ground that has been stepped on and pressed down. 

 Ezekiel 26:36  A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Jesus said that in the last days that the love of many would grow cold.  The harder your heart is, the more you are unable to love.  Jesus said this is my commandment that  you love one another.   God wants love to be in the hearts of man, that we would live and walk in love.  What kind of world would this world be if everyone had love as their motive?  How many of our problems that we face in this natural world would be eliminated if everyone walked in love.  God is concerned with our hearts because he knows  a lot of our problems will be solved when we get rid of the stony heart, and walk in the love of God.

A heart of stone is a divided heart.  Ezekiel 11:19  And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh:

God will give them one heart instead of a heart that is divided our double minded.  The bible says that when we are double-minded we are unstable in all of our ways.  When God gives  you one heart, it is  a heart of love, and a heart of faith, and of purpose.  A double minded heart is a heart of doubts and worries and unclear vision and purpose.  

Have you searched your heart today.  If your heart is hard, or double minded it will cause multiple problems in your life and your relationships.  Maybe the problem isn't outward as  much as it is inward.  God wants to restore and renew your heart.  Take your heart and surrender it to God and ask him to wash it clean of every attitude and desire that would make it corrupt by the blood of Jesus.