This Saturday is Valentine’s Day! It seems appropriate to address things of the “heart”…the “seed of our emotions”. Reading in Psalms 90 this morning, I crossed the verse that tells us to “number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom”.
John Eldredge in the Journey of Desire wrote: “We are at war, and the bloody battle is over our hearts. I am astounded how few Christians see this…how little they protect their hearts. We act as though we live in a sleepy little township during peacetime. We don’t. We live in the spiritual equivalent of a war-torn country. Act like it. Watch over your heart. Don’t let just anything in; don’t let it go just anywhere. What’s this going to do to my heart? Is the question that I ask in every situation.”
As we celebrate a day dedicated to the heart, let’s be alert to the fact that we are being stalked by a deadly enemy. Do you remind yourself that you are in a spiritual battle? That the decisions you make today effect your future? Do you guard your daily time with the Lord in His Word?
Are you intentional with your daily use of time or do you carelessly let it “slip by” with the lost opportunities? We are in the cross hairs and at a continual crossroads of decisions and our days are numbered…let’s determine to make those days count and “gain a heart of wisdom”.
What is this decision going to do to my heart?
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!
~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America. Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California. My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights.
