#2 in series: Create in me a clean heart
READINGS:
Isaiah 53:2-12
Mark 1:9-13
THEME
Auctions - many perceive them as highly stressful events that lead to spur of the moment decisions based on emotions rather than sensibility. As a Christian, every day of your life is spent in an auction yard, where there are constant, competing bids for your heart. Even if you pass in all the bids because you don't want to sell, there is always someone willing to negotiate and meet your price. The only problem is, you are not the vendor of your heart. So today in the second part of our series "Create in me a clean heart", we discover God's gracious gift of healing and strength when we are heartbroken by temptation.
THEME VERSE
At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. Mark 1:12-13a
REMEMBER THIS WEEK
Every temptation seeks to encourage you to live outside the identity and toward a different destiny than God has planned for you; to believe that he is absent from your life. It will leave you heartbroken. Jesus gives you, what he has enjoyed from eternity - a relationship with the Father who loves you, is with you and delights in you…always. It's a gift paid for by his own blood that brings strength, healing and wholeness to every heart.