![]() ![]() ![]() "Heart" is another term for "soul," or the immortal part of man. What shall become of hearts when He who craves them now shall judge them hereafter? Therefore now ask your hearts whose they are, and how they are moved with these words. God challengeth the heart by the name of a Son. We should serve God for Himself, and not for ourselves, as he which gives his heart doth all for love. God's requiring the heart showeth that all the things of this world are not worthy of it, or even a piece of it. Touch but the first link, all the rest will follow so set the heart a-going, and it is like the poise of a clock, which turns all the wheels one way. The wise man, picking out the heart for God, spake as though he would set out the pleasantest, and fairest, and easiest way to serve Him, without any grudging or toil or weariness. Unless we feel that we owe it to God we shall but give it against our will. There is much strife for the possession of man's heart. The heart carrieth the whole man with it. God doth not require the heart as though He required no more but the heart. Some have a double heart, but God acknowledgeth only one heart. Not a piece of thy heart, not a room in thy heart, but thy heart. Thy alms to the poor, thy counsel to the simple, thy inheritance to thy children, thy tribute to Caesar, but thy heart to God. ![]() Once God required offerings and sacrifices which men were unwilling to give, because it was a dear service of God but now He saith that the heart is more than all burnt-offerings and sacrifices. Smith.Here thou art a giver, God the petitioner, thy heart the gift which He claimeth by the name of a son. You cannot give Christ a piece of a heart, for a heart that is halved is killed. LET US BE WISE ENOUGH AT ONCE TO ATTEND TO THIS ADMONITION OF WISDOM. Wisdom urges to immediate decision, because it is well to have a heart at once occupied and taken up by Christ. It is well to guard your heart with all the apparatus that wisdom can provide.Ģ. Many others crave our hearts, and our hearts will surely go one way or the other. To take our hearts and give them up to God is the wisest thing that we can do.ġ. WISDOM PERSUADES US TO OBEY THIS LOVING REQUEST. He can gain nothing - we gain everything by the gift. ![]() For what has God to gain? He is too great for us to make Him greater, too good for us to make Him better, too glorious for us to make Him more illustrious. Only infinite love would come a-wooing to such hearts as ours. Wisdom must be of a most condescending kind. It can only be supreme love which leads wisdom to seek after the heart of such poor things as we are. It must be because of the great love of God that He condescends to put Himself into such a position.Ģ. It is an instance of infinite condescension that God should say, "My son, give Me thine heart." The Great Benefactor becomes Himself the petitioner. When God asks human love it is because God is love. We care not to be loved by those whom we do not love. The Hearts of Young People Demanded for God Giving the Heart to God a Reasonable Duty First Give the Heart to God, and Then Delight Will Follow ![]()
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