"First Peter 2:9 teaches us that we are part of God's royal priesthood. It is the priest's job to 'keep charge' of the Tabernacle, according to Numbers 1: 47-54. The Hebrew rendering of the phrase 'keep charge' is this: preserve, keep safe, safeguard, take custody of, and serve as if on sentry patrol. Are you keeping charge of your heart? Will you? Will you offer up your broken heart to God and allow Him to heal you? God already knows everything that is hidden in your heart, so nothing is going to surprise or shock Him. Psalm 44: 20-21 says this:
If we had forgotten the name of our God, or extended our hands to a strange god, would not God find this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
And be reminded from Psalm 78:8 that there is a generation who is 'stubborn and rebellious...a generation that did not prepare its heart [put it right], and whose spirit was not faithful to God.' Do you belong to the generation that desires to put their hearts right with God, or will you remain in your stubborn rebellion? The latter will make you like Pharaoh; the former will make you like Christ."
(Excerpt from Chapter 6, "The 'gods' of Your Heart," found in Spiritual Healing: The Surrender That Brings Victory)
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