A Believing Heart
Tommy Robbins

“For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Romans 10:10

The heart of man, consequential of his fallen nature, does not, cannot, and will not believe God. In man there is no natural faith in Christ. Man’s heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. Man is self-centered, self-righteous and self-glorifying. If we do believe the Word of God . . .If we do have faith in Christ, it is because God in sovereign grace and mercy has given us a new heart. Believing with the heart is much more than a mere verbal agreement with, and mental accent to Biblical facts as is propagated by false preachers and teachers as they press upon men to accept Jesus as their personal Saviour.

A believing heart is one that lives unto God, embracing, loving, seeking, rejoicing in the precious Redeemer of their souls, the Lord Jesus Christ.

A believing heart is one that hungers and thirsts after the righteousness of Christ and has a God-given abhorrence of sin and self.

A believing heart is one that daily takes up his cross, denying his own righteousness, repenting of his sin and unbelief and follows Christ by faith.

All those to whom God has given life and faith in Christ love the gospel. Not just any so-called gospel. They love the truth as revealed in the Lord Jesus Christ. It is utter nonsense to even imagine that any sinner to whom Christ has been revealed by the preaching of the gospel (The preaching of Christ is God’s ordained means whereby He calls His elect to faith in Christ) does not love to hear Christ preached and has a desire to be committed to the gospel of their salvation. To profess to be saved and yet have no desire or use for the gospel is a contradiction.

The natural man is persistent in his pursuance of the things that satisfies his carnal cravings, even to the extreme. Likewise, the believing heart will not be denied of that One thing which satisfies the longing of his soul … the Object of his faith … the Lord Jesus Christ. “One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in His temple” (Psalms 27:4).