Psalm 86
Teach me your way, O Lord,
that I may walk in your truth;
give me an undivided heart to revere your name.
Oh that one might have an undivided heart, oh what a feeling that must be! I don't know about you but I don't think that I can say that my heart is undivided. I long for it to be though. I long to follow that greatest commandment of loving the Lord my God with all my heart my soul and my mind, but I fear that I often don't do as well as I should. I divide my heart to so many things in life, God, church, family, work, myself, others, things, desires, not necessarily in that order. I think on things that I shouldn't waste a moment's thought on. I sometimes would be willing to gain the whole world and lose my soul. And so I often fail in all three categories of loving God with my all, but I wonder if it all radiates from having a divided heart.
Perhaps if I could solidify my heart I could better love all the things that I should love, perhaps by giving all my heart to God I would have more to give to everyone else. That seems a bit sideways I know, but going along with the whole "have life and have it to the full" I wonder if by loving God better I would automatically start to love others better as well. If I gave what I had away to the one who deserves it perhaps I would gain back more than I gave in the first place, which would allow me to give more to everything else in my life, but instead I give a little to God and a little to my wife and a little to my son and a little to the church and a little to my work and a little to my sins and a little to my wants and a little to things I desire and a little to others. I divide it up so small that what I get back gets me through, when love could make me thrive.
As I do on occasion, I would like to end this with a prayer instead of questions: Holy God may you help us all to live with undivided hearts, to give you our whole heart, whole mind, whole soul that we might have more to give to others, Amen.
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