You've experienced it before: your 3-year-old grand-girl bounces into your house wearing the cutest leopard top over solid leggings, topped off with a precious bow in her hair; or that strapping boy bounds through the door grinning ear-to-ear in his jeans, jersey, and his baseball cap on backwards -- I don't care who you are: that's cute!!!
3 minutes later things aren't going his way and he's fallen on the floor yelling at the top of his lungs to make it change; she can't find the doll she wants, so she's screaming for immediate assistance until that doll appears...they're not quite so cute any more.
No matter how one looks on the outside, if all's not right on the inside,it's not pretty! You can tell by now that we're considering the heart again. The Biblical story of Samuel anointing David as the next king of Israel illustrates the fact that God cares more about our inner appearance than our outer appearance. "...God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." (1 Samuel 16:7)
Father, in Psalm 34:22, You promise to redeem the soul of Your servant. Iask you to teach __________ his/her need for You to be the Controller of his/her heart. Create in _______________ a clean heart, O God (Psalm 51:10). Stir his/her heart to love You with all his/her soul, strength, and mind(Matthew 22:37). And Father, teach _________'s parents to recognize any motivation in his/her heart that does not reflect the mind of Christ. Teach us to combine spiritual thoughts with spiritual words, as we lead __________in Your way of right thinking (1 Corinthians 2:12-13).We pray this in the strong name of Jesus!
And for you, the Grandmother or the Grandfather: are you in the habit of basing your actions on the emotion of the moment, or on what you know to be true? ...just a thought :)
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