"Then [Delilah] said to [Samson], 'How can you say, "I love you," when your heart is not with me?' "
God might ask this question of all professing believers. Consider how often in our prayers and praises we affirm love for God. But, do our hearts agree with our lips? Above everything, we should strive with all our might to give our hearts to Christ. If He has our hearts, He has our all--and the grief of our many failings will be swallowed-up in the satisfaction of knowing that our hearts still beat in love for God.
True religion is all a matter of the heart. Without this issue being settled, we cannot make any further progress.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Three men, asking one another what made them leave sin: one says, 'I think of the joys of heaven'; another, 'I think of the torments of hell'; but the third, 'I think of the love of God, and that makes me forsake it.'" --Thomas Watson, in, "The Doc-
trine of Repentance"]
