Heartstrings...

What are heartstrings? Heartstrings can be anything that keep your heart from finding freedom in God. It could be something as simple as tv and music or as hard as a relationship or drugs. There is something keeping most of us from achieving complete and total satisfaction in the Creator of you...yes you. He created you and knows exactly what you truly love. In Matthew 10 it talks about the rich man (otherwise known as Jeffrey) who asked what he had to do to receive eternal life. The rich man continued to tell Jesus all the commandments he had kept and it even says that Jesus loved this man, but when it came to the dirty dirty-the nitty gritty-the man could not give up his riches to follow God. So what is keeping you from following God into eternal life?

What heartstring are you being led to let go of? For me it is a relationship, one that I'm not fully capable of talking about yet. To work on letting go of this heartstring, I have written it down on a cardboard heart with a string attached and I will display it somewhere noticeable that I will see everyday. Everytime I see it, I will continue to pray and ask God to break this heartstring so that I may find  complete surrender in Him. It isn't that I can't have this relationship or a different form of this relationship it only means that it will not keep me from freely living for God. Once I feel that I have broken this heartstring, I will break the string on the cardboard heart and return it to my fellow youth leaders symbolizing freedom from that heartstring.

So again I ask, what is keeping you from living for God? Is eternal life worth giving up that one thing?  If you decide to do something similar please write me and let me know how it works out and what your heartstring is. I would love to pray for you on your journey. Please pray for me as I start mine as well. When it gets tough remember God said: "Be still and know that I am God." He has your best interest at heart.