Good morning Pastor John,
Happy New Year!
I loved last Sunday’s meeting. I was trying to get my mind to be still while walking my dog this morning. As I was thinking, “I want my mind still so I can hear from the Holy Ghost,” a thought came to me: “Why do you watch the same sermon over and over again?” I thought, “It is because my memory is not what it used to be and I want to remember it.” Then the thought came to me, “It is to get it into your heart. Your heart is not that little thing in your chest; it is much bigger.”
There are chambers inside of chambers where people hide pain, sin, and many other things. Good things as well. It makes up who we are. So, if it is in our heart, we do not have to remember it because it has become us. Bad things we have hidden in our heart, even things we do not remember, influence our decisions. When you find yourself asking, “Why did I do that? I don’t want to act like that,” it is because there is something in your heart that is quietly influencing your actions, and maybe you do not know what it is.
So, God’s Spirit in me is having me fill all of those empty chambers that the bad was removed from and filling them with messages to love and live by. And if I keep piling good things full of light in my heart there will be no place for the darkness and it will flee!
I wanted to share this before I get lost in the day and forget.
Thank you so much for all the good food you feed us!
Mark W.