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Treat Your Heart as You Treat Jesus

Treat Your Heart as You Treat Jesus
Our hearts should be well maintained and protected.
What are we feeding our hearts?
How are we treating our hearts?
You should treat your heart as you treat Jesus.
Start a friendship with your own heart.
Friendship with your heart is friendship with Jesus,
because He lives in your heart.
The way you treat your heart is the way you are treating Christ.
Are you treating your heart well?
Your heart is Jesus.
He not only lives in your heart, He is your heart.
Respect your heart as you respect Christ.
Respect can be defined as:
“a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited
by their abilities, qualities, or achievements;
agree to recognize and abide by (a legal requirement)”
(Apple Dictionary).
What does it mean to respect our hearts?
Our hearts are God’s temple.
Shouldn’t we respect His temple?
In the Old Testament He came to His temple,
but now He abides in His temple.
I wish we could see the value of holding God’s Spirit in our hearts.
When we ignore our hearts,
we are ignoring Jesus and keeping religion in our minds.
Let us treat our hearts with respect.
Let us not abuse our hearts with selfishness, greed, pride, fear,
unstoppable desires and wants, unforgiveness, anger, etc.
We are feeding Christ whatever we feed our hearts.
The way we treat our hearts and other people’s hearts
is the way we are treating Christ.
In her book, In the Heart of the World, Mother Teresa prays this prayer:
“O Jesus, You who suffer,
grant that today and every day I may be able to see You
in the person of Your sick ones and that,
by offering them my care, I may serve You.
Grant that, even if You are hidden under the
unattractive disguise of anger, of crime,
or of madness, I may recognize You and say,
‘Jesus, You who suffer, how sweet it is to serve You.’”
Doubt, lack of faith, anger, selfishness, hopelessness,
and greed will hurt our hearts.
Even an unsaved person knows that these things will hurt their heart.
For His sake, let us reject those things.
Please treat your heart well.
Christ became your heart.
Treat Him well, my friend.
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