One Simple Improvement You Can Make in Your Life Is to Open Your Heart
View all responsesOne simple improvement that you can make in your life is to open wide your heart. The closedness inside your heart is weighing you down with a heavy load to carry. Open your heart to God’s brilliant light so you can be lighthearted.
How’s your heart care going? There’s “something better” than watered down faith. Simply obeying Jesus day after day is far more powerful and rewarding than routine religion.
God doesn’t want people to occasionally lip sync His words with a faraway heart. (Matthew 15:8) He wants people to let His words continually burn within them (Luke 24:32) and empower them to obey Him. (John 14:15)
Open your heart to holy discontent. When God the Holy Spirit corrects something that you are saying or doing, stop it. (John 16:7-11) Then replace it with what He tells you to. (Matthew 4:17)
God never allows us to be discontent so that we will be discouraged, but so that we will hunger and thirst for His presence and righteousness. (Matthew 5:6) Then we will seek first His kingdom. (Matthew 6:33)
A closed heart has no ears to hear. (Revelation 3:22) It is spiritually blind. (Mark 8:18) A closed heart is self-preoccupied and in bondage to self-deceptive. (John 1:8) It is separated and disconnected from God’s revelation. (1 Corinthians 2:9-10)
A heart open to Christ is filled with wonder and gratitude (Ephesians 5:20) and the fruit of the Spirt. (Galatians 5:22-23) It is sensitive to and concerned about the needs of other people. (Philippians 2:3) Fully and unceasingly open your heart to the presence of the risen Jesus. (Colossians 1:27) Learn to be continually led by God the Holy Spirit. (Romans 8:14)
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