My heart is fixed

“But the God of all grace, … stablish, strengthen, settle you” (1 Peter 5:10).

You are settled by having an object that controls your heart. Christ is that object. He must be more than a necessity to you, He is this, of course He must be more than your resource, He is this also — His fulness is the complement of your need, and your need will never exhaust His fulness. But He must be more to you. He must be more to you than his gold is to the miser, more than his garden is to the botanist, more even than an only son is to his mother.

When Christ controls your heart His companionship is your delight and your thoughts become formed by His company, and the continual thought of your heart will be, How does this or that suit Him? It is good to turn to Him for guidance and grace, and to own that He is indispensable to us, but when He controls us, the thought of Him enters into all our ways and we enjoy nothing apart from Him. The heart is fixed.

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