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Homework for Our Hearts

Homework for Our Hearts
In my school days, I never liked to do my homework.
How about you?
As we all know, homework will usually get students ready for the test.
Are our school days over as adults?
No, life is a school and we are all in it together.
Do we face tests even after we graduate from school and college?
Yes, life is a “school of love” and is filled with tests every single day.
When there is a test there will always be homework,
and as we all know, there will be consequences for not doing our homework.
Where do we do our homework?
The homework will take place in our hearts.
As Jesus mentioned, everything starts in our hearts.
“but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her
has already committed adultery with her in his heart”
(Matthew 5:28).
Adultery, like any sinful action, will start in our hearts.
Sometimes I find myself doing acts of kindness and being polite toward people.
Now I see that acts of kindness should not be empty actions,
they should come from our hearts.
This is where the homework in our hearts comes in.
How can we do homework in our hearts?
Start meditating in your heart.
Pick someone and picture them through your heart.
Tell them you love them over and over again.
See yourself loving them unconditionally.
After you do this homework in your heart,
there will be a time that you will face the test of loving them unconditionally.
You will pass the test because you did your homework.
How does this process work?
When we meditate on loving someone in our hearts,
we open the door for the love of God to come in.
You can go even higher and see yourself loving
those whom you don’t have the smallest reason to like.
You can also do your homework in the area of peace.
Close your eyes and picture yourself receiving peace
from the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ.
If you do your homework through your heart
and meditate on His peace and the Word of God,
when hard times come as a test, you will pass.
Perhaps we have heard many sermons in our local churches or at conferences.
The only sermons that will stay with us
are the ones that we take into our hearts and meditate on,
the ones that we do our homework on.
The Bible is filled with homework.
When we take God’s Word into our hearts,
then we will pass the test when it appears in front of us
and we will be good students in the “school of love.”
Have you done your homework in your heart today?
We must not run or escape from our homework anymore.
Everything that is not deeply rooted in our hearts
will be uprooted by the enemy.
If someone gives me a very good fruit tree,
I have to plant it in good ground and water it or it will soon die.
The best place to plant the Word of God,
the best place to do our homework,
the best place to love others and receive peace, joy, and other good fruits
is inside of our hearts.
The more we do our homework in our hearts,
the more ready our hearts will be for the Tree of Life.
The Bible says eternity was planted in our hearts.
He has made everything appropriate in its time.
He has also set eternity in their heart,
yet so that man will not find out the work
which God has done from the beginning even to the end
(Eccl esiastes 3:11).
Did you do your homework today?
Is your heart ready for the Tree of Life?
The Lord is a gardener.
He loves to plant the Tree of Life in our hearts.
He is offering us His love for the whole world.
What are you feeding your heart?
Did you do your homework, my friend?
I love you even though I don’t know you.
I don’t know who will read what I am writing now,
but I picture you and I love you in my heart.
Holy Spirit, we repent for not paying better attention
to the homework of love in our hearts.
Forgive us, our Lord.
We rely on You to tutor us.
Let us picture those who are in prison now and have no one to love them.
Let us picture those who are at the hospital and have no visitors.
Let us picture those in Africa that are dying of AIDS and hunger.
Let us make our hearts ready for the Tree of Life.
Let us do the homework of our hearts.

From Kamran Yaraei’s Book “Food For The Heart”.
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