{"id":6549,"date":"2011-08-15T13:46:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T19:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/recalibrate-your-heart\/"},"modified":"2017-04-17T22:01:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T02:01:43","slug":"recalibrate-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/recalibrate-your-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Recalibrate Your Heart","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE <\/strong>heart is a finely tuned instrument. It is also delicate. The "narrow and rough" road of the Gospel, and all the bumps we encounter along the way, can throw the heart out of calibration. Temptations, trials, suffering… they can shake the heart such that we lose focus and direction. Understanding and recognizing this innate weakenss of the soul is half the battle: if you know your heart needs to be recalibrated, then you’re halfway there. But many, if not most professing Christians, don’t even realize their hearts are out of sync. Just as a pacemaker can recalibrate the physical heart, so too we need to apply a spiritual pacemaker to our own hearts, for every human being has "heart trouble" to one degree or another while walking in this world. <\/p>\n

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When you wake up in the morning, what’s the first thing you do? If it takes you a couple hours before you even acknowledge God, then your heart needs to be recalibrated. <\/p>\n

As our minds begin to stir with all the responsibilities of the day, it is easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of all that we face. There is that immediate sense that one is already behind, that there isn’t enough time to finish all that the day demands. Here is the moment when the heart needs to be quickly recalibrated. Otherwise, we risk getting sucked into the vortex of busyness, and God will ultimately take a back seat. And we will suffer as much as a branch will suffer when separated from the vine.<\/p>\n

But He is our peace and consolation! He is our everything, our life, our breath, our reason for being! The more our hearts lose this calibration, this centering upon him, the more restless and disturbed we become. Put positively…<\/p>\n

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I set the LORD ever before me; with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed. (Psalm 16:8)<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Don’t be naive! Every morning, weeds are springing up ready to \"\"choke out the good seed that God has planted in your heart…<\/p>\n

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…worldly anxiety and the lure of riches choke the word and it bears no fruit. (Matt 13:22)<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s why the Scriptures admonish us to constantly stay sober and alert.<\/em> [1]<\/sup><\/a>1 Pet 5:8<\/span><\/span>