Your Heart is Like a House

Your Heart is Like a House

God says in Rev 3:20I stand at the door and knock anyone who hears my voice and opens the door, I will come and eat with him and he with me.” 

I liken our heart to a house. And God is knocking. You can hear someone knock at the door and you can hide upstairs because you don’t want to talk. You can yell through the crack, “I’m busy!” You can turn all the lights out and pretend you aren’t there. But the doorbell will start ringing incessantly and you can keep fighting opening that door. Or you can….. open the door and allow God to move in!  And for some of you who have never opened that door and let God move in, that will actually be a complete overhaul of your house. It will be like a housecleaner, an interior designer, a chef, a D.J., a handyman and a plumber came in and spiffed things up. And I can promise you that you will love your house so much more than you ever have!

But what is interesting, is that you can open that door and just let God in the living room. Some of you have let God chill on your couch for years, but you’ve never let Him go into your bedroom. You have never let him into your bathroom. You have never let Him into your office. Or maybe you have let Him move around, but really only occupy one space at a time. You kind of put limits on where God can go and when. And that’s when things get messy. Those rooms you haven’t been allowing Him in, the ones you have left vacant, those now, they are why your heart is in the place it is.That’s why bitterness and envy and resentment have all moved in. ( As I talked about last week in a post: There are so many things we want to change about ourselves and yet we locate the problem on a very surface level when in actuality the problem is a heart problem, a deeper problem.  And we have to get to the root of our problems and we need to start with our heart.)

Allow God in all the rooms all the time. If you have been what you call “born again”, which by the way is not a term to brag about and one up other people as if to say you are somehow more spiritual or tight with God. If you have been born again, meaning God has moved into you and given you a new heart and has put His Spirit in you. If that has happened, then you should be walking with His Spirit. Gal 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. You should be brewing coffee with the Spirit. Disciplining your kids with the Spirit. Dating with the Spirit. Spending money with the Spirit. Allow God to move in. Stop fighting Him. Don’t hide anymore. Let go of pretending. God is not interested in a one-time visit. That’s why your heart is in the place it is. Invite Him in to stay.

The only part you can play in God changing your heart is to recognize the place your heart is in, recognize the rooms you haven’t let God into, or the entire house and receive. You can stay stuck or you can open the door and He will walk in and as Jesus says in John 14, He will make his home in you. In you! The cold, hard, drab, abandoned, vacant, bitter, ugly, hateful, jealous, selfish house you call your heart. And that’s when what is old becomes new again and again and again. That’s when God can change what we so desperately want to see changed!

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