Our heart by nature is divided among ten thousand vanities all of which are sought in preference to God. Whatever can contribute to the satisfaction of the carnal heart, becomes an object of desire. Our hopes and fears, our joys and sorrows are called forth into powerful and continual operation to obtain the fleshly desires of our heart!
But in order to have an acceptable walk with God, the desires of our heart must all center in Him. He will not accept a divided heart. God says, "My son, give Me your heart!" (Proverbs 23:26) and it must be given to Him entirely. To Him it must be exclusively devoted, in all its faculties. At least, nothing must be an object of hope or fear, joy or sorrow but in subservience to His glory, and in obedience to His commands. Jesus said, "No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money!" (Luke 16:13)
There is "a singleness of eye," and "a singleness of heart," that is indispensable to a right walking with God to "Him who searches the heart and tries the thoughts!"
[Charles Simeon]
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Jeremiah 17:9 ... The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Mark 7:21-23 ... For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Proverbs 4:23 ... Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Psalm 139:23-24 ... Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.❤
