Having Our Hearts Stirred by God
There is a law called the law of inertia. It is Newton's first Law of Motion. Simply stated, it says that an object at rest will remain at rest, unless it is acted upon by an outside force, and an object in motion will remain in motion, unless acted upon by some outside force. I have observed that this is true of people, too. When we are doing nothing, it takes something or someone to give us a push to get us going. When King Cyrus of Persia took over the kingdom from the Babylonians, he gave the Israelites the permission to go back to Jerusalem after being in exile in Babylon for 70 years. (Ezra 1:5) "Then, God stirred the hearts of the priests and the Levites and the leaders of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin to go to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple of the Lord." God stirred their hearts to action, and God is still in the business of stirring hearts today. We are saved from our sins to serve the Lord for the rest of our lives. We are not saved just to sit in a pew and...