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BELIEVING HEART
“For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.” Romans 10:10
The heart of man, consequential of his fallen nature does not, cannot,
will not, believe God. In man there is no natural faith in Christ. Man’s
heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. Man is self-centered, self-righteous
and self-glorifying. If we do believe the Word of God…If we do have
faith in Christ it is because God in sovereign grace and mercy has given
us a new heart. Believing with the heart is much more than a mere verbal
agreement with and mental accent to Biblical facts as is propagated
by false preachers and teachers as they press upon men to accept Jesus
as their personal Saviour. A believing heart is one that lives unto
God, embracing, loving, seeking, rejoicing in the precious Redeemer
of their souls, the Lord Jesus Christ. A believing heart is one that
hungers and thirsts after the righteousness of Christ and has a God-given
abhorrence of sin and self. A believing heart is one that daily takes
up his cross, denying his own righteousness, repenting of his sin and
unbelief and follows Christ by faith. All those to whom God has given
life and faith in Christ love the gospel. Not just any so-called gospel.
They love the truth as revealed in the Lord Jesus Christ. It is utter
nonsense to even imagine that any sinner to whom Christ has been revealed
by the preaching of the gospel (The preaching of Christ is God’s ordained
means whereby He calls His elect to faith in Christ) does not love to
hear Christ preached and has a desire to be committed to the gospel
of their salvation. To profess to be saved and yet have no desire or
use for the gospel is a contradiction. The natural man is persistent
in his pursuance of the things that satisfies his carnal cravings, even
to the extreme. Likewise, the believing heart will not be denied of
that One thing which satisfies the longing of his soul … the Object
of his faith … the Lord Jesus Christ. “One thing have I desired of
the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the
LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and
to enquire in His temple.” Psalms 27:4
- Tommy
