Do you ever get a feeling in your heart that things are heading the wrong way?
Having that feeling is a built-in guidance system that if followed will lead you away from harm and allow you to have and follow God’s witness.
And being a follower of God, or someone that God is drawing to Himself, you don’t want to push that feeling aside; it is our spiritual warning system alerting us of present or future danger.
The danger is that if we push these inner alerts or knowing’s aside continually we become calloused to them, and callouses become hard and lose their feeling.
We need these inner feelings to have the ability to follow God; if we harden our hearts and become calloused we lose our sensitivity to the leadings of the Holy Spirit.
When we have hardened ourselves against our inner man (our conscience) we have cut ourselves off from God’s help.
There is no grace available to a hard-hearted, rebellious person, and hard-hearted leads to hard-headed or stubborn. In this condition, a person cannot find God’s grace or help and they would not be open to the inner gracious leading.
God’s grace is our help and it comes in the form of an inner leading, a guidance system that leads away from evil and toward good.
As we open ourselves up to the inner witness, our heart becomes pliable and God can work with them as with clay. Molding us into the witness He created us to be, reaching out to the people around us with a message that is vastly different from the message that the world is sending.
Worldly, selfish people have become so hardened against everything and everybody around them that it is very difficult to decipher what they are for or what they are against.
God loses His ability to mold and shape those that are continuing to harden themselves against the truth and if we follow in that direction we will end up broken because God intended us to stay moldable, softened, with the ability to deliver His message, lovingly and full of grace! Amen!
Peter the Apostle of Jesus spoke about this in Acts 15:7-9, “Brothers, you all know that God chose me from among you some time ago to preach to the Gentiles so that they could hear the Good News and believe. (I will pause here for effect— so we could hear the Good News and believe, ponder that for a minute.) Now continuing with the scripture, “God who knows people’s hearts confirmed that He accepts Gentiles by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He gave Him to us. He made no distinction between us and them, for He also cleansed their hearts through faith! Amen!
God knows the condition of our hearts and so do we. I repeat so do we!
If we continue to harden our hearts against our inner knowing of right (our conscience), we remove ourselves from God’s help and start down a path that leads to a heart condition that might not be curable.
If God turns His grace from you and He hardens your heart, then you will follow evil, right into the Red Sea, and perish as the Egyptians did.
If God blinds your eyes and hardens your heart you can’t see or understand and have no way back to grace – John 12:40. So it is imperative that we follow God’s Word and God’s Witness very closely, staying in tune with our spirit; not allowing ourselves the pleasure of picking and choosing our stance if it goes against God-given directions.
If it bothers the inner man and goes against our conscience, we must cut it off immediately, never pushing down the inner witness, but always pushing away the evil that is trying to get us to compromise what we know to be right.
God placed this Witness inside of us for our good and His glory, so I will go back to the earlier statement I made, “God knows our hearts and so do we.”
Let’s let our hearts be our guide, casting down imaginations, arguments, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” Amen! 2 Corinthians 10:5 NKJV.
What are we thinking on today and where did the thoughts come from?
Let your heart overrule your head because in your heart is where true life is found. Proverbs 4:23.
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Scriptures of encouragement and content; Jeremiah 16:12,
1 Timothy 4:2, Acts 15:7-9, Jeremiah 18:1-8, Exodus 14:17, Joshua 11:20, and Proverbs 4:20-23 NKJV, “My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; for they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” Amen!
Be it unto us Lord, just as you have said!