While they were waiting for their parents to finish chatting, Robby and Eric were busy cramming their pockets with stones to throw at the sturdy old oak tree in the front yard.
“Look at me, Grandma! Watch me hit that big tree!” Robby called, nodding his head toward the oak tree and winding up like a baseball player eager to strike out the man at bat. But the stone flew right past the tree, followed by several more stones that also flew right past the tree.
Six-year-old Eric watched the younger boy for a while and then threw his stone. A direct hit!
“Good aim, Eric. You directed that stone right to the center of the tree. That’s like our Bible memory verse for this week, isn’t it? ‘The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ’ (2 Thessalonians 3:55And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. (2 Thessalonians 3:5)).”
Then Eric said, “You’d have to take your heart right out and put it in the Lord Jesus’ hand for Him to do that.”
We can’t actually do that, can we? Yet the Lord Jesus does say, “My son, give Me thine heart” (Proverbs 23:2626My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. (Proverbs 23:26)). We can let Him control our hearts and guide us in all our ways.
Are you letting Him do that?
ML-10/18/2009