Devotional for Monday, October 2, 2017
“Desiring A Perfect Heart”
by Dona Hake
1 Chronicles 29:19
“…and give to my son Solomon a
“…and give to my son Solomon a
perfect heart to keep
Your commandments, Your testimonies,
and Your statutes,
and to do all that is necessary
to build the temple
for You, for which I have
made provision.”
Today I share a prayer with you from David. He prayed this prayer over his son Solomon. He desired that his son would have a perfect heart to keep God’s commandments, His testimonies and His statutes. I believe this is such a perfect scripture to meditate upon for ourselves and we too can pray over our own hearts. God desires that our hearts be perfect and desiring to keep His statutes that we may do His work to build the Kingdom of God for His glory.
I want you to think about this prayer in light of how this world can distract us so very easily. I believe that this prayer would invite the Holy Spirit to teach us, correct us, and help us to walk upright before Him. As we begin to pray for a perfect heart we are asking that our mind be undivided and whole. The devil loves nothing more than to take the smallest of things and cause our minds to begin to wander and worry. Distractions can cause us lack of focus and make us weary in the work. Distractions and worries many times start out as a small thing but become bigger if let go. It is those little foxes that will always spoil the vine. Many times our peace is lost, and then our focus is gone. We may start our day out purposing to serve our loving God with our whole heart but we need be vigilant. We need to stay mindful to see the importance of guarding every minute of our day that the devil does not try to trick us into thinking or doing things that are unacceptable in the eyes of the Lord. May we seek our Lord for a perfect heart toward Him that we may walk unhindered and be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
Lord we ask you this day to help us to serve you with a perfect and willing heart. We trust that your Holy Spirit will come alongside of us and lead, correct, guide and direct our every decision, and every path. We know that wisdom can see what we cannot see with our natural eyes so we trust you for Your wisdom over every matter of our day. In Jesus Name, amen!