A thought by Dallas Willard (2014-02-01) from his
book, Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ (p. 13). NavPress. Kindle Edition. (Click on
the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)
God has given us the
freedom of choice. I am free to choose
what I eat, how much I exercise but I am not free from the consequences of
those choices. Our choices have consequences
whether for good of for bad. And our
choices come from how our heart has been cultivated.
Dallas says, “Individual
disasters, too, very largely follow upon human choices, our own or those of
others. And whether or not they do in a particular case, the situations in
which we find ourselves are never as important as our responses to them, which
come from our ‘spiritual’ side. A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by
the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful
situations before which others stand like helpless children saying ‘Why?’”
So our response also
has a choice, do I wonder “why?” or do I do something about it? And our response shows a lot at what
influences or cultivates our heart.
As Dallas says, “Accordingly,
the greatest need you and I have— the greatest need of collective humanity— is
renovation of our heart. That spiritual place within us from which outlook,
choices, and actions come has been formed by a world away from God. Now it must
be transformed.”
So will I chose to
transform my heart?
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