Have you memorized your favorite temperature setting? Do you find yourself adjusting the thermostat over and over, all day long? Do you run the heat at night and the air conditioner the very next day—every day? Some people are more sensitive to temperature changes than others. Some notice the slightest deviation, while others—like the proverbial frog in the pot—don’t notice until things have changed dramatically.
Of course, your sensitivity to temperature is an issue between you, your thermostat, and the power company. It is not a matter of life and death, no matter how much dads like me try to convince you that it is. “Someone fiddled with the thermostat! …The thermostat is a sacred covenant! This is madness!” (quoting “DADDY’S HOME 2”). What is a serious matter is our sensitivity to sin. Do you care about the sin around you? Is your heart sensitive to questions of sin and holiness? Do you ever find yourself shocked by the things that pass for entertainment these days? Movies? Rap lyrics? Binge drinking? Gambling, strip clubs, sex trafficking?
God can give you a heart that values the things He values.
“And I will put a new spirit within them. I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh so they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people and I will be their God” Ezekiel 11:19-20.
God, give us new hearts! Fill us with love for You and Your statutes. Give us the desire to obey, to do the right things and not the wrong things. Make us more like You every day. Fill us with a love for Your holiness and grief over the destructive power of sin.
ΑΩ
Household Words: 