“Return to me with all your heart…and render your heart and not your garments/” Render our hearts and not our garments? Are there times were we simply render our garments and forget to render our hearts? What does it mean to render our hearts? What does it mean to render our garments? Does that apply simply to our spiritual life or to our physical life as well? Is this word for the people of
There are many times that we feel the need to prove ourselves to those around us. We think that in order to be in with the crowd we need to meet the standards the world around us has determined. For example, the kid who has the crooked nose, though he is very intelligent he feels the pressure of society that says, “if you don’t look like the picture we’ve painted then you aren’t worth much.” The beautiful blonde hair and green eyed girl whose dream is to be a doctor is later crushed by the world around her that tells her it is her nature is to be a model and nothing else. Let’s just be honest, in the end what matters is what people think about you and nothing else. Wrong! We all work so hard to try to fit into the perfect mold the world has made up but we forget to hear the call of the one who wants our hearts and nothing else.
Render our hearts and not our garments. Render your mind, body, soul, and spirit. Render your time, render your speech, render your actions, and everything else that you are. I think that’s what God wants from us, not so much our good looks or how much money we have but just who we are. Time and time again God us to follow him wholeheartedly. He says don’t do so much just come as you are. Don’t get so carried away with praying aloud for those around you to hear but come with an open heart. Don’t feel you have to meet the standards of the world to come to me just come wholeheartedly. I feel like God is not so much interested in what we can do but what he will do through us and that’s why he says to give our hearts and not our garments.
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Give yourself
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I completely agree with you. I feel like at times people do a lot for show and not for God. That isn't the case all the time, but I do feel some people do it for another person. I feel as though this is true, especially when it comes to relationships. Either a guy or girl will show how passionate he/she is for God through actions, but at the end of the day when they go home are they really that in tune with God on a spiritual level. I mean yes, some people totally are... but some I feel as though it is just a show. I have mixed feelings about it overall, but great post !
ReplyDeleteI liked your post it was really good.... It doesnt take long for one to notice if someone is really what they clame to be. As a christian I dont understand why people dont live what they claim to. No one has to follow...but giving that they claim that they chose to, why dont they. idk I just feel one should either claim to follow Jesus and give Him all they Got or not claim too and leave Him alone. In other words serve one God. I was just really lost before i was saved and now its hard for me to understand how people can spit on the cross.
ReplyDeleteI agree! Rend your heart and not your garments sort of encourages me in a way. God looks on the heart with in than what we wear or appear to be on the outside. It seems everyday people are on our campus trying to look the best they can, but it's really their souls that God wants.
ReplyDeleteI take so much comfort in knowing how beautifully and wonderfully I am created. It makes me rend my heart because I know He accepts me just as I am.