Loving God with all Our Hearts | November 5, 2023

Have you ever gone to one of those blood pressure machines at a pharmacy to check how your heart is doing? You have sit there perfectly still while the cuff seems to cut off all circulation to the lower half of your arm and just before your arm dies from lack of blood flow, you are rewarded with seeing if your blood pressure and heart rate are normal or not. Though annoying for a moment, the information is helpful. This Sunday we will NOT be asking you to put on blood pressure cuffs. However, we will be doing a spiritual heart check. If you want to know how your spiritual heart is, then one of the great indicators will be to look at your cheque book or transactions on your online banking. This is what we discover from Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 6:19-21 as we begin a one month Stewardship Series from the Gospels. We hope to learn how to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, minds, souls and strengths. Someday we will stand before Jesus and give an account for what we did with what He gave us. The good thing is that if we are having spiritual heart problems now, God can do spiritual heart surgery, even a heart transplant, where we exchange our misery hearts for His generous one! What an amazing God!