Psalms 119:80
May my heart be blameless in your statutes, that I may not be put to shame!
Proverbs 4:23
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life
My son Jeremiah had to read about Billy Sunday a preacher from the mid 1800’s today in school. The “News Story” he wrote about him encouraged me to pick up the story myself and read about this man.
Billy’s grandfather once told him, ” It’s not what you have on but what you have in you that makes you a man.” I thought about Esther and how she had gained favour from the kings eunuch which tells us that it was what was “in her” that attracted him to her. I then thought about how we are instructed over and over in the Scriptures to work on our inner man and that God does not look at the outward appearance.
My husband talks often about while he was growing up he asked his dad “what does it mean to be a man?” and the answer he recieved from his lost father being so unsatisfactory to his searching soul. Even when he joined the Navy later in life, his purpose was to answer this nagging question.
I think that most of us have this innate desire for purpose and passion in that purpose.
I desire to live with the same idea always on the forefront of my mind. “It is not what is on you, but what is in you that makes you a man.”
