Surrounded by critics, Jesus focuses everyone’s attention to the hardness of one’s heart. How many life problems are caused by our own selfish desire to get ahead, to live out our own way? What changes would take place if we each became someone different, transformed by His love? Navigating our world with distractions, evil intent by many, and a crowd searching in all the wrong places for meaning takes a steal spine and a soft heart. May we become what who God wants us to be.
“Securely attached people are not exempt from trauma. However, they are more anchored in their God-created sense of worth, more apt to have healthy relationships, and more connected to a personal sense of meaning, call, and purpose. They are less likely to self-soothe in addiction, cope with distraction, even plummet into depression. To be sure, they can’t avoid the challenges of life. Storms will come. The Fog will envelop. But they are anchored in their Home, resourced internally to navigate the inevitable weather patterns that come their way.” - Excerpt, Healing What’s Within by Chuck DeGroat
“These teachings remind us of our failure to live up to the ideal. They remind us of the reason for our failure, i.e., the hardness of our heart. The problem in any marriage is always a heart problem—a stubborn will that resists God and God’s ways while pursuing our own. All of us have this problem, not just those who have experienced a divorce. Divorce is only one expression of the heart problem. It certainly is not the greatest.” - Excerpt, Following Jesus: Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark by Steve Langford
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