Heart found deep inside a pepper in our kitchen.
Our
hearts are like windows on a house that allow the light of well lit rooms to
shine out into the darkness of a surrounding night. Our hearts allow the love
of our heavenly Father to shine out to Him and others.
But
just as the windows on a house can become covered with dirt or by curtains, our
hearts can also be covered by spiritual dirt and spiritual curtains. When our
hearts are covered it hinders the light of God’s love from being released.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1 John 4:8(KJV)
1.Sin
Sin
causes the love in our hearts to grow cold.
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax
cold.
Matthew 24:12(KJV)
We
must guard our hearts from the deceptiveness of sin, lest we lose our
sensitivity to the love of God.
2.
Not responding to the needs of others.
Love
can be shut off in our hearts when we purposely close ourselves off from others
needs. When we see a need and we do not respond, our hearts become closed off
to the love of God.
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have
need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love
of God in him?
1 John 3:17(KJV)
3.
Guilt
Our
remorse over sinful behaviour can subtly convince us that we are unworthy of
God’s love. This is a trap of the devil. We have the assurance of Scripture
that the Father loves us completely.
That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in
love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the
acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
Colossians 2:2(KJV)
4.
Lack of Knowledge
Our
love needs knowledge and discernment. If our love does not have knowledge and
discernment we will approve things that will condemn us.
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in
knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent;
that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.
Philippians 1:9-10(KJV)
But
now that we have salvation through Jesus Christ, the power of His resurrection,
and the Holy Spirit who heals our hearts of the brokenness of the past. Because
Jesus came to heal the broken hearted, we can love freely with the love that
God has poured out into our hearts.
The
good news for us is that Jesus came to bear our sins, failures and sorrows so
that we could freely allow the love that He has placed in our hearts to flow
out to God and to others.
