DEVOTION – SUNDAY,
MAY 13, 2012
“Don’t Trust Your Heart”
BY
GREG LAURIE
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and
desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” - (Jeremiah 17:9)
Awhile
back I was talking to someone who was having an affair with a married man.
That, by the way, is a sin, which I pointed out to her. She wasn’t very happy
with me for saying that, so I asked her if she considered herself a Christian.
“Of
course I do,” she said.
“Well,
do you believe the Bible is true?”
Much
to my surprise she said, “Absolutely.”
So
then I quoted some verses that identified what she was doing as a sin. And she
told me, “That is your opinion. That is your interpretation. You just don’t
understand.”
Do what your heart tells youis a
creed believed by millions today. It is one of the great cultural myths of the
Western world, a gospel proclaimed in many movies and songs and television
programs and stories.
But
the Bible says, “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and
desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” (Jeremiah 17:9).
We
need a higher standard of authority than our heart, a higher standard of
authority than mere opinion, and that is the Word of God.
The
problem we have today is a watered-down gospel. And because of that, many have
a watered-down Christian life. We have Christians who have become so much like
the world that the world doesn’t want to become like them. And what is
considered normal Christian living in the first century would be considered
radical by today’s standards. But that is what we need: radical Christianity.
To put it another way, we need biblical Christianity.
Instead
of trying to accommodate the Word of God to our changing culture, we need to
accommodate our culture to the unchanging Word of God.
Summary
sentence: Believers should be accommodating their life to the unchanging Word
of God!
Tags:
heart, watered-down Christianity
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