A DIVIDED HEART What's going on in your heart today? One of the many benefits of a Quiet Time, or a Morning Devotion, is the opportunity it gives us to hear from God about our heart condition. According to Paul, all of us suffer from Chronic Heart Disease (Romans 7:23). As Christians we are each a new creation in Christ, but we still live in an earthly body and are subject to the influences of our fallen nature---which Paul calls, the OLD MAN. This morning I was slogging through Hosea 9-11 in my daily reading. It's a little depressing reading about the spiritual failures, the whorings, of Israel that resulted in their captivity and ruin. BUT---it is also instructive. Proverbs 4:23 has some excellent advice for each of us: Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. When the Bible talks about our hearts it doesn't mean the organ that pumps blood throughout our bodie...
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