‘ I wish you, my precious children, knew what it is to give your hearts to Jesus to keep every day. I used to keep my own heart right, but it would always be going wrong. So at last I had to give up trying myself, and to accept the Lord’s offer to keep it for me. Don’t you think that is the best way? Perhaps sometimes you think, “I will try not to be selfish or unkind or disobedient.” And yet, though you really try, you do not succeed. But Jesus says: “You should trust that to Me. I would keep that little heart, if you would trust Me with it.” And He would to.’ -Hudson Taylor
This is a continuation of the note ‘The Dam’ refer back to it if you dont understand the metaphor or just message me and ask.
A major caution we have to have as believers is that as we strive to break down the dam we become too overzealous with our pushing out what we see as bad and end up bringing down a filthy landslide of self-righteousness which not only rebuilds and reinforces the dam but taints the flow of love that does flow through us to the point where instead of being life-giving water it turns into a destructive poison ready to destroy in the name of doing good. in order to prevent this really is just keeping in the forefront that its not us doing the changing it God working through us renewing us into a new creation, and that without Him we are but filthy rags unusable for any good work.
He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil. ~ 1 Timothy 3:6
