Weekly Pursuit – Week 4 of December
Verses:
Prov. 4:23 “Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the issues of life.”
Excerpts:
The heart was created for the purpose of loving the Lord. Love is a matter of the heart. The heart is the only organ to exercise love. Everyone loves something—either the Lord Himself or something else. The more we turn our heart to the Lord, the more we will exercise our heart to believe the Lord, and the more our heart will be sprinkled from an evil conscience and renewed. Then it will have a greater capacity to love the Lord. This is the function of a renewed heart. Every morning we must renew our heart so that we may love the Lord more and more.
All spiritual experiences start with love in the heart. If we do not love the Lord, it is impossible to receive any kind of spiritual experience. In fact, the first experience of our Christian life, salvation, involves the heart loving the Lord Jesus. [The] initial experience of salvation is a reaction or reflection of love in his heart to the Lord.
We all must learn how to continually turn and exercise our heart in order to have our heart purged from an evil conscience and renewed again so that we may love the Lord more and more. It was the loss of its first, fresh love to the Lord that was the cause of the church’s fall and degradation. When our heart is not fresh in loving the Lord, we have fallen. We must turn our heart back to the Lord again and again and have it continually renewed that we may have a new and fresh love toward the Lord. (CWWL, 1964, vol. 3, “The Economy of God,” p. 204)
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