Let God enlarge your heart, for Jesus’ sake …

From leaders to followers, so many people today like to rail against using our heads and lobby for more application of the heart.

That in spite of this profound and sobering truth from scripture:

“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” Jeremiah 17:9.

Could it be because by using our hearts we have a broader base of irrationality from which to push against God’s desire to break our sinful and destructive habits and bring us to truth so that we can then apply our hearts in a transformed way? H.G. Wells speaks insightfully to just this issue, as quoted by Josh McDowell in “The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict”:

“He was too great for his disciples. And in view of what he plainly said, is it any wonder that all who were rich and prosperous felt a horror of strange things, a swimming of their world at his teaching? Perhaps the priests and the rulers and the rich men understood him better than his followers. He was dragging out all the little private reservations they had made from social service into the light of a universal religious life. He was like some terrible moral huntsman digging mankind out of the snug burrows in which they had lived hitherto. In the white blaze of this kingdom of his there was to be no property, no privilege, no pride and precedence; no motive indeed and no reward but love. Is it any wonder that men were dazzled and blinded and cried out against him? Even his disciples cried out when he would not spare them the light. Is it any wonder that the priests realized that between this man and themselves there was no choice but that he or the priestcraft should perish? Is it any wonder that the Roman soldiers, confronted and amazed by something soaring over their comprehension and threatening all their disciplines, should take refuge in wild laughter, and crown him with thorns and robe him in purple and make a mock Caesar of him? For to take him seriously was to enter upon a strange and alarming life, to abandon habits, to control instincts and impulses, to essay an incredible happiness … Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?”

God enlarges our hearts by transforming our minds, so that we many think, see, and feel as our Savior does.

Indeed, our hearts are too small for this Man from Galilee; our great need is for God Himself to change us from the inside out.

Have you surrendered your life to the transforming love of God?

Scotty