Hearts For Doing God’s Will

Focus: Psalms 40:8 - KJV

8. I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

Jeremiah 31:31-34

The heart of man is ordinarily wicked and not easy to decode. Therefore, by the ordinary, the average man is desperately wicked. More often than not, the ordinary man has no thought about God, goodness or kindness. He is a self-centered being. But the one who created him wants the man to be like Himself. God, as a person is ordinarily good and kind and there is no measure of evil in Him. When He found that the existence of man has been contrary to His will and purpose for which the man was created, He decided by Himself to help man to come to the realization of His will and purpose. To achieve that, He decided to take away from every man the heart of stone and give him a heart of flesh which will be the receptacle of the laws of God, instead. With the new heart, man now has the laws of God implanted in his heart with the ability to do good.

Joseph was a direct offspring of Israel: he was before Moses and therefore had no tables of law to refer to. Potiphar’s wife knew it was wrong for her to allow the Hebrew slave boy Joseph to come in unto her, yet she plotted to have it happen. Joseph knew it was wrong for him to go in unto his master’s wife. He knew it was not only wrong but equally a sin against God. It could only have so been, because the Lord had implanted His laws in their hearts. Hence, Joseph was able to decline the evil enticement even though Potiphar’s wife was bent on consummating her lust; not because she did not know it was evil, but because, despite the Lord’s doing, she could not be bothered.

The Lord’s position to us today is that we should stop deceiving ourselves. The Lord knows when we are clear of the effect of our actions as we already have the clear indication in our hearts whether that which we purpose to do is good, or not. There is no pretending that we do not know. It is that everyone intends the consequences of his action. We are therefore, to heed the position of our consciences when it prompts us to abstain from evil, else we will answer to God.

Please pray:

Thank you, father for making our hearts the receptacle of your laws. From now on, help us to decide for you and you alone, in Jesus’ name. Let us never be stiff-necked as to continuing to consummate evil deeds, despite the prompting of our hearts, in Jesus’ name. Please let the reward of good deeds be ours through and through, in Jesus’ name.

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