“My heart is not right with God.”
When we say “My heart is not right with God,” it shouldn’t be an excuse to continue doing what we are doing that makes our heart not right with God. Saying that statement out loud is a realization of the condition that our heart is in, and it should be followed by a desire to change that. It shouldn’t be “My heart is not right with God, so I’m going to stop serving in the church.” Instead, it should be “My heart is not right with God and I want it to be right with God so I can continue serving Him in the church.” Why is it that we first cut out of our lives what would help us get right with God and then try to cut out what is keeping us away from God?
Even when we feel like we’re not right with God, we should continue to go to church. Continue to pray. Continue to read the Bible. Continue to sing in the choir. Continue to serve. If we don’t continue in these things, then we’ll continue in the things that keep us away from going to church, from praying, from reading the Bible, from singing in the choir, from serving.
Let us surround ourselves with people who will tell us what we need to hear rather than what we want to hear. It’s better to get our feelings hurt by the truth than feel good from a lie. After all, “faithful are the wounds of a friend,” the Bible says.
