Gentle Heart

#900  Sun.  Oct. 28/18   7:20 am,   at home

Be still and know that I am God.  It is in the hustle and bustle of life that sometimes we do not have the time to focus on God --- our Creator, Saviour, Wisdom-Giver.

Are we busy because we think we have to be?
Are we busy because we do not want to encounter God?

Where does your busyness take you?  Do you not even stop to think that you are special, one of a kind, gentle of heart, enabled to do good things?

I am Gentle of Heart.  This is a Grace that I want to give you. 

Being gentle to your heart.  Not demanding that you meet this criteria, or that criteria. 

I invite you to step aside and be with a Gentle Heart. 

Ask this Gentle Heart to guide you to see you through each moment, not wondering what you should do next. 

I do not want you to plan your day.

Rather I want you to give Me your soul so that I can plan your day for you.

This most certainly will give you a gentle heart because you will not be all tied up wondering, sometimes frantically, what to do next.

This freedom frees you to be more with Me, who then has a chance to enter your heart and make it peaceful and more enduring.

So ask for the Grace of a Gentle Heart, which in turn will treat your body with more gentleness  and less demands.

God-Guards

#899  Wed. Oct. 24/18,  4:30 am,  at home    (God-Guards)

Silence the wanderings of your heart. Bring it home before Me.  Do not let it get far from its Holy Base.

We sometimes do not even realize that our soul is wandering off.  So that is why we must check it often.

Are you saying God’s Name in vain?
Are you speaking meanly of others?
How angry do you behave and quickly?
What has entered your prayer life that is not of God?

It is like an examination of conscience not to list what you have done wrong, sinfully, but rather to check and see what has taken your soul away from wanting to be with Me?

You see, we tend to check ourselves for sin, yet do not ask or want to know the deeper question “Why do I not want to walk with God?”

We treat ourselves for sinning, yet do not check ourselves for walking away from God.

That thought does not seem to enter our head.

Yet, when we sin, I am turning my back on God and walking away.

Do you see the serious need for asking ourselves “Why am I walking away from God?”  “What looks more enticing, appealing than My Precious God?”

Does it point to less prayer?
Does it indicate that I have walked with folks who are less God-centered?
Does it mean that I take God for granted and that He will keep me from sinning with no effort needed on my part?
Do I think of God just casually and not deeply and sincerely and with love?
So, I do not need to know that you have been angry 3 times today or spoken ill of another 5 times since your last confession.

The true search and confession needs to be ‘Why am I walking away from God?”  This is a true examination of your very being.

It is like you have let down your God-Guard and allowed the human weaknesses, that really are not strong, to have invaded your soul.

Get the picture in your mind.  You have all sorts of God-Guards set up around your soul.  Yet when you get cross quicker, angry more, lie more --- does this not indicate that your God-Guards are not in place?

Examine your conscience on not what you have done wrong,  but what you are not doing to daily strengthen your God-Guards.

--- am I praying less,  letting my heart go to anger more,  avoiding my commitment for my soul‘s sake to the Will of God, choosing to do my own thing and slacken off on serving God? 

These are some of the ways we de-strengthen our God-Guards.

So, now that you know, now you can be more attentive to serving Me --- not serving yourself.