Heart Check!

How has your heart had been these past few days?

Have you’ve been excited and full of joy? Have you’ve been mostly in high spirits that everything seems to go your way? Are you particularly excited with things like the start of summer, or perhaps with a new job, and new set of friends? Are you constantly celebrating with how well your grades turned out? Or maybe, someone is causing you to constantly blush these days?

Have you’ve been struggling? With emotions, family problems, and money matters?  Have you’ve been a grump these days that people would rather stay out of your way or else they would get a taste of World War III?

Have you’ve been crying a lot? Are your pillows constantly drenched with tears? Are your prayers full of sobs? Have you’ve been so low that the slightest of things could make you burst into tears? Are you losing your hope, your dreams? What happened to that strong, courageous, and determined person that you are before? Has life wounded you? Have you lost someone? Has someone hurt you that they were beyond forgiveness?

Have you’ve been afraid? In fear of trying out at something you’ve failed at before? Scared of being rejected? Are all your bravery left out and fear filled you?

No matter what situation you are in right now, no matter what circumstance your heart is going through, have God check your heart once again. Working people, and some students, undergo annual physical check-up for their institutions to know if they are fit to work or to study. Some sick people come to doctors when things are pretty serious. A mild cough and cold could be managed by an over-the-counter medicine anyway. But a week or two would pass and that nagging cough just turned worse.

Our hearts should never undergo that way of “check-up”. We should let God check our hearts on a daily basis. Not annually, and worse not when our hearts are undergoing something serious.

For when we let God check our hearts on a daily basis, we can be assured that we are inclined to His will, and we are constantly listening to His voice, and we are always in obedience to what He wants us to do.

For the battle doesn’t come annually, or weekly; they come every day.

Have you let God check your heart today?

"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." (Proverbs 4:23)

TUP Manila Campus Ministry
Celebrating Hearts Day with these amazing children of God!
(Photo credit to Vince)