Day 2: An Undivided Heart

“Teach me your ways, O LORD, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.” Psalm 86:11

Key thought of the day
Loving God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength means loving Him with the totality of our being.

One of the things that God wants most from His children is whole hearted love and devotion. Throughout Scripture (Jeremiah 32:39; James 4:8), it’s clear that He places a premium on an undivided heart.

So what exactly is an undivided heart? Several years ago, a popular gospel tract entitled “My Heart, Christ’s Home” compared a person’s life to the rooms of a house. It’s an analogy that works well here. When we have undivided hearts, we give God one or two rooms of our lives, but we keep the other ones closed off to Him. From a business standpoint, having a divided heart would be like pledging full loyalty to our current employer while you were negotiating a relationship with your company’s closest competitor.

When we have an undivided heart, however, we give Him the keys to all the rooms. It doesn’t mean we’re sinless; it just means that we’re not trying to hide anything from Him. We’re laying our whole household of thoughts and feelings on the table: all our fears, thoughts, concerns, agendas, and ambitions. And as He reveals areas of our lives that need work, we willingly uncover them and do what we can to put them in order.

Only a man or woman who is working hard to live a holistic, integrated life can ever hope to pledge a wholehearted, single- focused devotion to Jesus. What is that? As long as we split up our lives, closing off work in one room, church in another room, our finances in another room, and our family in still another, our focus will always be divided. We can’t concentrate on one thing first and another thing later. We must bring all our worlds together and realize that it’s just as possible for God to be in the middle of our mundane, Tuesday afternoon work world as it is for Him to be involved in our family lives and church activities.

Examine the rooms of your life. Do you need to pray and ask God to give you an undivided heart?

Article is taken from “ Daily Focus” by Stephen R. Graves and Thomas G. Addington

“What do I really love?”
1. Are they any rooms in your life that are “private”? Do you hang any “do not disturb” sign outside any room?

2. Why are you afraid to let Christ into these rooms? Are they messy? Are there things you need to hide from Him? If Jesus is not Lord of all, can He be Lord at all?

Meditate on Ps 86:11 through the day. Perhaps it is time for you to turn over the master key where He can have free access to any room in your heart. Pause and tell God your decision now!