Aim For The Heart

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 27th of March, 2023, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.  

Put away from you a deceitful mouth,
And put perverse lips far from you.
Let your eyes look straight ahead,
And your eyelids look right before you.
Ponder the path of your feet,
And let all your ways be established.
Do not turn to the right or the left;
Remove your foot from evil.
Proverbs 4:24-27

I believe the Lord wants to say to you and me this morning, my dear friend, that we are not to waste time on worthless, useless arguments. Some people like arguing just for the sake of it. They have no intention of changing at all. No one deserves to hear the Gospel twice until the world has heard it once. If someone continually argues with you about the things of the Lord, pray for them, but move on otherwise you are wasting very, very precious time. I will go so far as to say that it is very difficult to win a person over to Jesus Christ through an argument. You have probably got more chance by losing the argument than by winning it, because people become adamant, they dig their heels in and they will not listen to reason. 

You and me, as children of the Lord, must aim for the heart and not the head. You see, the Christian faith is all about trusting in the Lord. I always say, tongue in cheek, it is very hard for a mathematician or an accountant to enter into the Kingdom of God. Why? Because in God’s economy, two and two equal seven! It's a miracle, that's right! The whole salvation plan is a miracle. It doesn’t make sense but it is true. 

You know that big game hunters in Africa, when they go out hunting for a buffalo bull, they will never shoot him in the head, they will always shoot him in the heart. When we are speaking about Jesus Christ, we need to aim for the heart. It is not clever words and it's not intellect, it is love that will win a soul over to Christ. Today, go out and love people and they will come to you and ask what they must do to meet the Man from Galilee. 

Jesus bless you and goodbye.