A Good Heart

Meditations in the Season of Epiphany 

February 9, 2022

A Good Heart

A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart.

Luke 6:45

Read: Luke 6:39-49

Chapter six closes with Jesus concluding his teaching on what it looks like to live as the children of God. In the next chapter, we will get a glimpse of an actual person putting Jesus’ teaching into practice.

As I reflect on today’s passage, I recall a photograph I saw a few weeks ago. My favorite college basketball team had just won a close game against their rival. In an empty arena after the game was over and the crowd had left, the photograph was of one of the star players, alone, shooting free throws. Always practicing, always improving.

So it is with us. As I noted yesterday, God has very, very high expectations for his children, and he will not rest until his children are transformed to be like Jesus. Our responsibility is to position ourselves to grow in Christ. For the last several years, most of my spiritual growth came through studying to prepare these mediations and preparing Sunday School lessons two or three times per month. Now I am blessed to participate in two classes per week where I get to be the student with an outstanding teacher. Always learning, always growing in Christ.

My Takeaway: The closing passage, v. 46-49, perfectly summarizes Jesus’ teaching: obedience. I believe the epiphanies, the manifestations of the presence of Jesus in my life will increase as my obedience to Jesus increases.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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