THE DESIRE OF MY HEART

“The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?”

1 Chronicles 29:5 KJV

Rev. M. Homer Cummings wrote a beautiful hymn “I Want My Life to Count for Jesus”.  It is the desire of my heart and should be the desire of every Christian that our life count for Jesus by the things we do and the things we say.  May God help us to lead others to Jesus by our loving actions and words. 

I love the words in this inspiring and heart touching hymn.  “I want my life to speak for Jesus, In words of love and cheer, That lonely hearts by grief o’ertaken May feel His blessèd presence near. I want my life to speak for Him, In service every day; In all I do, in all I say, I want my life to speak for Him.”

Joyce Landorf Heatherley, a Christian speaker and author, said on one of her teaching tapes.  “The people we sit next to in church look fine and they look darling but inside they are hurting”.  We need to be encouragers to one another and especially for our pastors and deacons and their families. 

I don’t know about you but it is very difficult for me to share what is in my heart because I think people won’t understand or will laugh at me.  There is good news.  We can tell Jesus anything.  Jesus can see into our heart and He knows how we feel but He wants us to share our heart with Him.

Heavenly Father, the desire of my heart is to make Jesus happy.  I pray You will search my heart and if there is anything that hurts You, I’m sorry.  In Jesus’ Name, I pray.  Amen.

Joanne Lowe

January 30, 2019