Wednesday, March 7, 2012

God's Strategy of Choice

UV 343/10,000 Amazing Principles of the Uni-verse revealed verse by verse I Chronicles 28 v 9 The Hearts and Minds strategy 1Ch 28:9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever Solomon served God with a perfect heart and a willing mind. Our hearts should always be overflowing or dripping vis a vis God: with thankfulness and contentment, a sense of awe and reverence, a sense of joy,a sense of patient expectation and anticipation, a sense of repentance and contrition, a sense of trust and love , a constant impulse to praise and worship the Lord. A heart that harbours all these attitudes and cultivates these responses is the heart that is perfect towards God. The Spirit of the Lord is always searching the hearts of mankind to reveal Himself to any who are seeking His presence in this manner. The search lights of Heaven are always trained on earth to look for and find hearts that are beating in sync with the heart of God. A willing mind is the second prerequisite in our relationship with the Lord. We should be willing to obey what is revealed to us by the Lord. We should be willing to pay the price of obedience. Abraham in offering to sacrifice his son Isaac was willing to obey the revelation of God. Moses obeyed the revelation of God. St Paul obeyed the revelation of God. We must be willing in the sense, our thoughts, emotions and decisions should be focused on doing what is pleasing to the Lord. He knows the secrets of our lives. He knows the motives behind every thought, word and deed. Like the Psalmist, we must pray out of reverence, “ Lord search me and find out if there is any wanton or hidden sin in my life and help me remove it.” When we forsake or give up on our faith in God, He too forsakes us forever. Hence, we must cling to our faith. We must never let go of it as if our very life depends on it. We must do the spiritual equivalent of an angiogram to know what attitudes block our spiritual supply channels or our arteries. It is critical to our spiritual growth to have those blocks removed. Prateep V Philip

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