Where the heart of Christ Leads to

Knowing Jesus is more of a desire of the heart than anything else. Even there we can't even desire that on our own, as without Him we can do nothing.

About all we can do is ask Him to open our hearts unto Him on a continuous basis. There's really not much else to it.

Having said that, there will eventually emerge a way for you that, for whatever reason, works the best. If we don't start with the heart's desire for Him, we will simply have another legalistic, dead burden to perform in life, as we struggle and strain to know Him because we have to, or because someone else pressures us to.

While it's a good thing to encourage one another to continually keep our hearts open to Him, it still must be something He does and we respond to.

When it comes down to it, Jesus doesn't want much more than to have us open our hearts to Him continually, and allow Him to live His life in us; with our permission and cooperation. Jesus never forces Himself upon us - that's His nature. But when we give Him free rein to live fully within us, He's more than willing to comply.

Of course once we do that, there's that thing called the cross, which works in us so His image can more fully be seen and expressed in us.

One of His great desires is to have it done individually, and from there expressed through a corporate people. I have seen Him working for this throughout my whole life. He will never stop working for it either.

In only say individually above because if we don't have it to start with, the corporate is almost impossible to emerge. Of course we need both to be a healthy people of God.

What happens when we start to seek out the corporate side, is we're faced with the sad reality that it can't happen within the existing practices of the Church. The practices disallow a people emerging centered in the life of Christ, as the next thing that happens is everyone wants to share that life together. Picture that in a building with a professional clergy talking all the time.

To search for a deeper walk with Christ will always lead to wanting to share that walk with others. It's there that the challenge emerges, and you start to discover the problem you have. You either quietly go about doing things as usual, or you start to want to see things change. Many people are tired of being bystanders of an age-old system created about 17 hundred years ago at the time of Constantine, and have entered into a journey outside the existing structures of the institutional church.

That's where the path leads to all those that want to share a corporate, organic experience of Jesus Christ together.

A Song Of Peace

Our Hearts Need to be Always Open to Him

Sharing the life of Christ together takes a lot of humility and brokeness, things that can only come from the Lord. Yet it is a heart after God that enables us to open up to Him doing this work within us, and living His life through us.

A willingness to take everything as coming from the hand of God is one of the attributes that come along with this.

What this does is keep our hearts open before God and with one another. A hard heart is possibly the greatest enemy against our allowing Him to live His life within and through us.

One of the jobs we have as the people of God is to continually remind and watch out for one another that hardness and bitterness doesn't enter within us and find a home. It can devastate everything that the Lord wants to do within us if we resist Him.

All we can do is continually be open before Him whether it is painful, joyful, happy or sad. As long as He is there with us - which He is - nothing else really matters. That He is there is enough.

He is more than willing and able to renew a right heart and spirit within us. Just trust that He will, and leave it in His hands.

Jesus Has a Great Open Heart

The Lord's heart is wide open to those who want the key to it. We don't have to be afraid to respond to his love at any time.

All we have to do is enter into that love by faith, for faith works by His love.

His heart isn't wooden or stone or hard, it's a heart kind toward His people, His bride.

One of His desires is to have us respond back to His open heart with the very love He shares with us. We need to learn to encourage one another not to harden our hearts toward our Father, for He's not hardened toward us.

Even that we have to ask Him to do in us, as we can do nothing without Him. It's a beautiful dependency that he's created for us to have on Him, if we'd only believe His arms are open wide to us, no matter where were at. We only need to believe they are.

Let's not allow the cares of this world and the endless problems associated with it cause us to look away from Jesus and close our hearts to Him, or one another.

He told us when He was on the earth that we would suffer through problem here, but to be happy and cheerful, because He had overcome the world. And the one that has overcome the world lives within us. We can rest with open hearts to Him, while the storms rage around and upon us, for He is able to hold us up, no matter what has happened or what we feel.

Jesus is a faithful friend and lover, and He will never forsake us.