Jeremiah 17:9
The human is like the most deceitful of all things, and desperately
wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?
10 But I the Lord search all hearts and examine secret motives.
I give all people all their due rewards, according to what their action deserves.
wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?
10 But I the Lord search all hearts and examine secret motives.
I give all people all their due rewards, according to what their action deserves.
this is very timely. People are now excited and enjoying the atmosphere of "LOve, February,Valentines day" as what we are used of it. But this does not mean to awaken our hearts and allow to follow the flow of it.
Proverbs 4:23 Above all else, guard your hearts for it determines the course of your life.
It's high time to guard our hearts from what the world offers, suggest, and trying to put up fake and false standards, compromising views of Love. It should not be based on teleseryes, suggestive magazines, talkshows, movies, and reality shows. No one in this world could ever show what is really true and perfect love.
Everyone of us failed at some point in our lives when it comes to guarding our hearts, but because of God's grace and love, He allowed himself to show and demonstrate the true and perfect LOVE of all; the coming of His one and only Son, Jesus, and His redemptive work at the Cross. It is where Love was perfectly and purely made and done.
No one is excuse or exempted on this. Everyone has its chance to be victorious; and being careless of guarding the heart, defeat is at cost. Great people
with title and high position, as well as the "ordinary ones" has its own story to tell of defeat bcoz they weren't able to guard their hearts.
LEADERS AND THEIR EMOTIONS
Satan's primary target for attack are the front liners or known called as Leaders. And satan's tactics is so obvious, he always use the emotion as weapon against them. But despite of it's clarity, still many failed to recognized the tactics and quickly dive into it. This cause a domino effect to the people following behind them, and this is the saddest part. Because you are not alone will be suffering the consequence but also the people behind you.
KING DAVID AND HIS UNGUARDED HEART
2 Samuel 11:1-13--
tells us the story how King Davis stumbled
tells us the story how King Davis stumbled
in his heart. It was this time when he got a lose hold of his heart.
C11V1 in the spring of year when kings normally go out to war...
It was the time for battle but David chose to stay for nothing; instead
sent his armies to fight without his presence. A day came for David, a day
where he's at rest, nothing to do, and where his heart got arrested.
one way of keeping our hearts guarded is to place ourselves in the rightful place, doing the right
things. As king David tried to escape the battle for his kingdom, He was not able to elude the greatest
battle that led him to defeat. That's why we should be in the place where God called us to be.
If it's not the right time yet to indulge to our heart's content, don't dare to break in, instead
yield on the things that God called you to do. Perhaps the Lord's time for you is to be more passionate
on loving Him; wanting to see you growing in His knowledge and grace, performing that's
assigned to you. God works in His perfect time.
DAVID BATHE WITH SIN
His ending on that battle was so sad. He failed; he committed SIN AFTER SIN. Being adulterous to a
murderer, and tried to hide the mistake that he did.
When sin was knocking into his heart, he was not able to flee from it. He opened the door of his heart
and let sin entered and corrupted his whole being. Seeing the woman, bathsheba, bathing, led David to bathe in sin.
WARNING:
MEN- you are driven by what you see. Dili man jud maiwasan makakita
ug maanyag na pananawon. Pero posible kaayo bantayan ang kasing-kasing.
Dili magpadala sa makita.
WOMEN- Dili dayon magpadala sa unsay madunggan gikan sa lalaki. Be preserved.
Don't expose yourself. Pagbaton ug kahadlok ug paminw sa Ginoo.
KING DAVID vs. URIAH
KING DAVID- instead of doing his duty as a king he chose to did nothing.
- He can possibly interceed for his team as an option.
- He can also take care of other needs of the kingdom that would make
his time worth it. but n one of these things he tried to do.
Mao na, usahay ang pagrest na wala sa panahon dili diay makaayo. there is a time
for everything. (Ecclesiastes 3).
Surely it was David's time to love God's work and set aside his personal agenda. Whan the
Lord is calling us out to go, we should quickly do it. Always remember that the safest place to rest is in the
presence of the Lord and doing His will, outside of it brings threat.
URIAH- the husband of bathsheba
- loyal and committed to his duty as a soldier
- knows his top priority
David tried to cover up his mistake. When he knew that bathsheba got pregnant, he ordered uriah to go home and be with his wife, thinking that he will sleep with her. But uriah is decisive to stay and finished his duty as the kingdom's soldier.
It is so vital to know our purpose. Take time to think and ask God what is his duty for you at this time.
If God tells you to seek Him more and do more for Him, just trust and obey. Heart matters? It will just follow.
