Make Music in your Heart 

Through this plan, we’ve been talking about the fact that God wants to heal our hearts. 

Your heart is that place deep inside where we live and laugh and cry and experience things.

People can have hard hearts or soft hearts (see Jesus’ words in Matthew 13:15). Divided hearts or committed hearts. Proud and arrogant or humble and contrite hearts. 

And when your heart is sick or broken, it robs you of life. It stunts your growth. 

That’s why God wants to heal your heart.

Can I ask you something today? Can I urge you? Don’t settle for a life of anything less. 

It is God’s plan for you and me so that even when we’re going through the most severe trial, we can know that we are full of God’s Spirit, and we are loved and safe. 

That, my friend, is where the joy of the Lord comes from. That’s what makes us want to make music to the Lord, our God, in our whole, healed hearts.

This is the music David wrote about in Psalm 57. Here’s David, hiding and cowering in a cave, in fear for his life. Yet listen to what he’s singing in his heart: 

“My heart is steadfast O God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing and make melody.”

His heart is healed and resting in God. He is safe, even amidst the danger, and he can’t help himself. He wants to sing.

Some days in this life are going to be tough. Some days, you will feel as if you’re hiding in a cave, fearing for your life. But even on those days, make music in your heart to God.

Because in a way that we can’t quite explain, worshipping God and making music to Him in our hearts brings healing and peace and joy.

My friend, God wants to heal your heart. All of it. Lay it out before Him. Seek Him with all your heart. Love Him with all your heart. Serve Him with all your heart. 

It may take time, it often does – but He will take your sin away and replace it with health, vitality, passion, and a desire to sacrifice and serve the Lord our God. I promise you He will heal your heart and make it whole.

 Life application questions

• The trials and struggles of life can leave our hearts hardened and calloused. Do a quick heart health check right now. Would you say your heart is soft and open to God? Or a bit scarred and calloused and closed to Him?
• Are there areas in your life where you need new growth, new life? Identify those areas and take them to God in prayer. Ask Him to show you what’s at the heart of those limitations.
• Are you struggling through some trials in your life right now? Are you hiding in a cave, surrounded by lions? Ask the Spirit to help you make music to God in your heart.
• Ask God to help you lay your heart – your whole heart – down before Him. Ask Him to heal it and to give you daily patience, wisdom, and peace as He does.

  

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