This
week I had my quarterly heart check. Actually it isn’t a heart check, it’s a
pacemaker check. It’s amazing to me how they can check the thing over the
telephone. And I am grateful to benefit from one of the miracles of modern medicine,
an implantable battery device with wires into the heart sending impulses to
keep the heart beating sufficiently fast to maintain activity. I’ve depended on it for four and a half years
now. It is predicted to have another ten years of battery life before it needs
to be replaced. (I hope to have that many years and more left.)
But all of us do have heart checks,
not every quarter, but every day, every moment of the day. The Holy Spirit
keeps a constant monitor on the heart of every living person on this earth. He
measures, not beats per minute or physical strength, but the spirit contained
therein. We can conceal impure, hateful, selfish or other shameful thoughts
from other people. No one can really know what we think. They cannot know the
condition of our spirit. But we need to be constantly aware that we cannot hide
these things from our God.
King David cautions his son and heir
to the kingdom, Solomon, “know the God of your father, and serve Him with a
loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts and
understands all the intent of the thoughts.” (1 Chronicles 28:9) Now that’s good advice for all of us. Indeed,
we should do our own heart check each day or moment by moment.
Grace
and peace.
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