Revive My Heart

 

Revive My Heart

“Make your ways known to me, LORD; teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; I wait for you all day long.” Psalm 25:4-5

How many times do my thoughts bound me? 

I have an option to wait upon the Lord. I’m invited daily to come and receive the saving grace that is available but sometimes I just choose myself to be the teacher. The thoughts of not being good enough. The thoughts of striving in myself and not trusting in the Lord. And even knowing dying to my thoughts gives Him permission and invitation to give me His Clarity and Focus I will still choose mine. 

It is a long term mindset. The enemy wants us to think that it is an instantaneous thing to develop the thoughts of Christ but if that were possible I wouldn't need Jesus. It is only when I allow that to happen over time.  The slow process of becoming more like Jesus is stripping off more of myself to clothe myself with the mind of Christ. He is Peace and will surpass all my understanding when I allow him to guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus. 

“We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this from the Lord who is the Spirit.” 2 Corinthians 3:18

Transformed. Into Jesus. How is that even possible? When I look in the mirror all I see is my flesh, a body that is aging. All my imperfections. At least that is what the enemy wants me to see. He wants me focusing on the outward when the truth is God is concerned on the inward and what is happening within my heart. 

The same glory of the Lord that couldn’t be seen without people falling over dead is the same glory that lives in us. The Bible says, “For if what was set aside was glorious, what endures will even be more glorious.” The unveiling comes whenever a person turns to the Lord for forgiveness and mercy and the veil is permanently removed from their heart and God is able to display His glory in and through us. No matter the aging that is occurring something so much greater is happening we are becoming more like Jesus. One degree at a time. So we get to overflow with His glory. Spilling over into this world.

What would that look like?

 Renewal and restoration. Spiritual awakening. Repentance and change. Creating that space where He desires to work. Making my heart something He can continue to work in and change me more to become more like Jesus. That is his whole goal. Making me more like Him. 

Father,

You crave intimacy with us.  Your love is a love in action working in us cultivating an awareness around us that we cannot dismiss. But that change begins with us. Turning from our ways to allow the leading of your ways is something our flesh will fight against.  But you Jesus tell us that when we surrender those things at your feet and know you as Our Father, Friend, and Savior you become the song of our hearts. Your constant Presence leading us fashions us to become more like you Jesus..

So make us more like you. So others can see you Jesus.