{"id":247,"date":"2024-07-30T01:07:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T01:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/source.wpopal.com\/thegreen\/we-dont-just-create-bouquets-we-create-emotions\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T09:31:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T09:31:45","slug":"c29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/c29\/","title":{"rendered":"29 : A Matter of the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"247\" class=\"elementor elementor-247\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d299c62 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4d299c62\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-30b03f17 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"30b03f17\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>        <div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/c28\/\">Previous<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/autoplay\/\">Continuous Play<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/c30\/\">Next<\/a><\/p><p><em><span class=\"top_description\">\u201cMy son, give me your heart\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><span class=\"main_content\">But how may I receive the Lord Jesus Christ as my Saviour? According to Ephesians 2:1, I am \u201cdead in trespasses and sins\u201d. If I believe Jesus Christ gave His life in place of mine, and that now by the receiving of Him as my Saviour I may have eternal salvation, will perceiving these facts in a cold mechanical way give me everlasting life? Most certainly not!<br \/><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"main_content\"><br \/>A wealthy man loses all his money, and rather than sacrifice his social position, he agrees to give the hand of his daughter to a rich man whom she despises. At first she refuses point-blank, but when her father shows her the expediency of the marriage, that it is his only hope of being saved from utter want, she consents, goes through the marriage ceremony, and becomes, according to the law of the land, the rich man\u2019s wife. But is her heart really his? Surely not!<br \/><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"main_content\"><br \/>You see it now, don\u2019t you? When a man and a woman would be truly one, they must love with such a love as to receive each other into the innermost recesses of their hearts in such a deep way that they cannot fully express in words all that they feel.<br \/><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"main_content\"><br \/>We all have the innermost recess of our beings, which is sacred to us, where emotions stir that no one else could possibly understand. Jesus Christ, God\u2019s Son, because of His love for us, claims the right to enter there. He will take no other place in our lives. The love He had shown for us entitles Him to that place. Will I withhold it?<br \/><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"main_content\"><br \/>When I think that Christ\u2019s love for me was so great that He left His Father\u2019s glory and came to earth, becoming truly human that he might suffer and die in my place and give me eternal life, my heart softens towards Him.<br \/><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"main_content\"><br \/>If I were to lay sick and helpless in a burning building, a friend had rushed in to save me, and wrapping the blankets about me that I might receive no harm, had himself been critically scarred and burned about the face and arms, would not my heart go out to him? God knows it would!<br \/><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"main_content\"><br \/><i>Thought: Who reigns within my heart?<br \/>Prayer: May my heart be softened and made receptive to Your love to me, O God!<\/i><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereasonwhy.net\/?p=174\">Previous<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereasonwhy.net\/?page_id=27\">Continuous Play<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereasonwhy.net\/?p=179\">Next<\/a><\/p><hr \/><p><audio controls=\"controls\"> <source src=\"https:\/\/www.thereasonwhy.net\/download\/cd\/030_Chpt 029.ogg\" type=\"audio\/ogg\" \/> <source src=\"https:\/\/www.thereasonwhy.net\/download\/cd\/030_Chpt 029.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/> <strong>Your browser doesn&#8217;t support this player. 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