Wednesday, March 6, 2019

The Fixed Heart



“My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.” – Psalms 57:7

The heart of a man was not meant to be traded, bartered, or solicited out to various suitors.  No, it was designed to be focused and set; to love God above all and live through Him in perfect love.  A heart without a supreme love for God is adrift and vulnerable, but the fixed heart is complete.

As sanctified believers we are called to a fixed mark, just as a cutter was built for a heading.  A “cutter” vessel is typically a small to medium sized boat that is built for speed.  They are designed to slice through oncoming swells with efficiency and pace.  There is little in their architecture that would hinder their progress amidst the open ocean.  However, like any boat, they are built for a heading.  Their seaworthiness is directly dependent on their need for direction and power; without these two things the vessel is lost and doomed to destruction.  They are built to move forward and face whatever the angry sea can muster, but without direction and without power they become little more than a fine piece of drift wood. When we were created, we were made in the likeness and image of God.  The relationship was established and the purpose of our being fixed.  We were in glorious fellowship with the Father and one another.  Sin broke that fellowship and gave our hearts another goal, another heading; it brought to us the will of Satan disguised as the will of self.  No more did we find continuous praise or virtuous tempers in our soul.  Rather the creature was subject to wrath and that was quantified in the law that God set forth years later.  This wrath within continues even until now; it is called carnality.  It takes the heart away from God, which thereby carries it away from your fellowman, your spouse, your children.  Carnality only wants, and wants, and wants some more.  The motive of it all is hidden in industry and commerce; going and coming, but the final product is akin to a vessel without direction, without power.  You find yourself adrift in this life tossed to and from with every wind of doctrine.  Driven by lust counterfeited as love.  This is a life without Jesus, without the Holy Ghost power within, without the experience of sanctification.  I will not say it is your life (though the Spirit may), I can say it once was mine; and no matter who you are or where you come from, it doesn’t have to be this way.  Jesus can give you direction and purpose, he can fix your heart.  He can put power within and drive your boat of life forward. 

The fixed heart is a heart renewed to Garden of Eden fellowship.  A heart that is restored to image of God!  How wonderful it is when the Holy Ghost comes in and creates within you a love for God supreme and a subsequent love for your neighbor.  It is the direction and power that arms you against the storms of life.  It helps you to see and understand that you were built for this, created for this; to glorify God.  Have you ever wondered how Christians who have no money, comforts, or even personal freedom can be so at peace?  They feel no longing, no striving, but peace?  How is it?  Because peace cometh not from what is without, but from what is within.  As a vessel is built for a captain, so the heart of man is built for God’s purpose giving Spirit.  The heart is fixed and because it is fixed it is at peace.  It wants for nothing and offers praise for everything.  It is no longer divided, broken, or wandering; it is complete, forever set on Jesus.  We have a heading, we have power from God, power to make it through any storm and land safe on the other shore.       


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