John, I believe this Pearl of Wisdom [below] is the sober “other” side of your message on a “perfect heart” from Wednesday night.
What your father described here is an NON-perfect heart. One thing I was thinking of, when I was listening to your message Wed. night, was “Lord, don’t let me be deceived into “thinking” I have a perfect heart, if I don’t.” What your daddy said below kind of put into “real life” what I was considering.
The wonderful side is that God will be standing with us and work everything out if our heart is perfect, but the other side is, that if our heart is NOT perfect…. well, this was a good description of that: “if we are lukewarm, it will take us where we don’t want to go”.
God has a perfect heart and gave us the Spirit that writes it on ours —- oh, the value of guarding that which He has given us, and keep it perfect and free of impurity and hypocrisy.
Gary
