How is Your Heart

N. T. #148 “How is Your Heart?”

Sept. 20, 2023 

Matthew 13-Part 5 

LET IT GLOW 

My nephew has had a job were he traveled to various places getting samples of soul and water. He would obtain it, then others would test it for good and bad elements. So I was thinking, that we should test the soil of our heart, too.

1. Are we faithful and fruitful? As a believer, is our our heart well watered by studying Scripture, prayers, and fellowship?

2. Are we worried and worldly? Is our heart constantly on wealth, material things, luxuries and keeping them?

3. Are we shallow and shaky? Is our faith shallow that it focuses on emotion, sentimentalism, and tradition or is it growing in obedience, commitment, and perseverance? Do trials and criticisms result in our faith being rootless? Are we applying the Word of God in our life? Do we know believers like this?

LET IT GROW 

4. Are we faithless and stubborn? This category in the parable is the only one that describes a person who rejects the Truth and doesn’t have a saving relationship with Christ.

(Resource: Swindoll’s Living Insights-Matthew 1-15)

 If you can’t recall a time that you asked Jesus to be your Savior and forgive your sins, then plow up the hard ground of your heart. (Jeremiah 4:3) Jesus Christ died and rose from the grave to prove His love for you and me, as well as provide for our eternal life in heaven with Him. It is by faith that we come to Holy God, not by good works. 

Will you trust Jesus today?

LET IT GO

Trust and obey for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.