Cultivating the Heart: Prioritize Its Real Importance

If you and I were to sit down and I were to ask you how important your relationship with God was, you’d might tell me it’s the most important thing in your life. Imagine that I then ask you to pull out your filled out spreadsheet I shared last week, what would it look like. I’m not talking about the ideal of what your week would look like. I’m talking about an inventory of what your week actually looked like. Consider it a checkbook of time. Budget to Actual comparison.

Asking yourself this kind of question is hard: Is what I say is important actually important in my life?

It’s like stepping on the scale knowing you have not been eating or exercising like you planned to. But it’s necessary to take an honest inventory of your life so you can address the issues.

Most of the issues I hear from folks are rooted in not prioritizing this cultivation of the heart I am talking about. Like evangelism, we can talk about it, but never actually do it. Merely talking about how important your relationship with God does not make it so. In fact, without actual, tangible tilling of the soil, merely talking can harden the soil of your heart even more.

In my subsequent posts, I will be giving practical advice on how to till the soil. For now, it merits its own post to have you do the hard and very practical work of self-evaluation.

So…what practical ways, what habits are you prioritizing in your life to cultivate the seedbed of your heart?