_An Empty Heart

A chilly morning greeted me today as I woke up from my sleep. I wasn’t able to work again last night, mainly because I determined to get 100% healthy first. I don’t want to risk getting sick again while working.

Yesterday was a blessed day for me. Spent precious moments in prayer. Also, I received answers to some of those prayers. What sweetness is there in the emptying of the soul before His most holy throne? When stricken with fear, a sense of disgust of self for all mine sin and wickedness? And yet when laid bare before His throne, the Lamb ever intercedes with His blood and a fountain of life and peace springs forth and fills me to overflowing.

To be filled with Christ is to first be empty of self. To determine one’s self as of no value and to see the Lord Jesus as most precious, infinitely precious, in His glory and beauty.

For the heart to be filled with the love of God an emptying of heart must first take place, an honest inspection and laying down of all that is within us before Him. When the heart has been emptied of all hope in itself, all high thoughts of self, all comforts in self, fully confessing the hopelessness of self, and the utter detestation that it so deserves for the abomination that it is… Then, we realize that the heart is being wounded by God the Holy Spirit Himself, breaking it into a million pieces. And then He binds it up. He wounds then He heals and beholds upon our hearts the wellspring of the eternal love of God in the Lord Jesus Christ. He fills our affections with joy unspeakable, with gladness never-ending, and reminds us that though we fail and fall, God, He never fails. Though our affections for God fall short from what they should be, God’s steadfast love never fails and will always draw us unto Himself.

Oh! The wonder of the glory of Almighty God for His ever enduring love for His people!

Bless the Lord, O my soul and all that is within me! Bless His holy Name! Bless the Lord, O my soul and forget not all His benefits, Who forgives you of your iniquities and heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, Who satisfies you with good so your youth is renewed like the eagle’s! Bless the Lord, O my soul!!!