“My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.” (Psalm 57:7)
It is good to be able to say with David, that “my heart is fixed.” There are many who could never truly be described by the word “fixed.” They are continually changing or, as the Scripture says, “carried about with every wind of doctrine.” The apostle Paul tells us that one purpose of the Christian ministry is to do this very thing. In preaching the gospel, we edify or build-up the saints of God so that we will all have a fixed heart.
Is your heart fixed in the knowledge that God is sovereign? We are not able to explain everything that happens in this world, but we do know for sure who is in control. Is your heart fixed in the knowledge of God’s sovereign grace? — That God has blessed a people with all spiritual blessings in Christ before the world began, and that he has predestinated us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ? It is not good or merit in any man that allows God to save sinners, but only the redemption that he wrought in his Son?
Is your heart fixed in the knowledge that all that the Father gave to Christ shall come to him and be eternally saved? Is your heart fixed in the knowledge that you have come to Christ? — No matter what some say or think, that you have found Christ to be precious to you?
Is your heart fixed on Christ as being the only Mediator between God and men, and say with the hymn writer, “Other refuge have I none?” If your heart is fixed, then determine by the grace of God that you will join with David and sing and give praise. “For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen” (Romans 11:36).
Pastor David Pledger Lincoln Wood Baptist Church — Houston, TX
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