FAITH CAPSULE: Have you ever thought about what is wrong with your heart?

Exodus 8:1-16
 
A believer that constantly acts out negatively is actually confessing what is inside of the heart. Engaging a wrong confession is complaining to God. Heart that complains is an act to rebel against God. Rebellion is despising the word of God. To despise His word is to be destroyed. Is complaining your portion? There is no act of complain that goes past God without God knowing. How is the state of your heart? Despising His word is an indication of hardened heart. Is your heart a hardened heart?
There is an adage that states, “When a dog is set to get lost it will not listen to hear the whistle of direction from the lost path.”King Pharaoh of Egypt was a typical example of one with a hardened heart. In the case of Pharaoh, he heard and he saw the hand of God, complete in power, being demonstrated right before his eyes. The Bible recorded Pharaoh’s response after the second plaguewhich bombarded the whole land of Egypt with heaps of frogs, “But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not heed them, as the Lord had said.” (Exodus 8:15) Have you been operating Pharaoh consciously or unconsciously in response to the word of God? The wondrous works of God is everywhere declaring that God is near. Pharaoh did not listen to what Moses had to say for the release of the children of Israel from the bondage of Egypt. Actually, it was not Pharaoh’s fault except that he happened to be a vessel of dishonor. Exodus 7:3, “And I will hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.” Pharaoh did see many miracles, which should have been enough for him to let the Israelites go, but he refused to grant them exit out of Egypt because God had hardened his heart. You have seen manifold miracles from the time you were growing up, and you are still seeing them today, yet you find it difficult to let God have His way in your life. Have you ever thought about what is wrong with your heart? You have determined numerous times to give it all to Him, but it is not working. Indeed, determination will not work. If you sincerely desire to give it all to Him, enter into your prayer room and begin to ask Him for help. It is evident that God is the director of the heart. He alone will choose to direct it for us to love Him and not play hard. Desire the good one for yourself and He will deposit it in you.
 
Prayer for today: Personalize Paul’s prayer in2 Thessalonians 3:5, “Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ”