Turning Our Hearts away from God

Scripture 1 Kings 11:4 For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David.

Observation: What turns our hearts away from God. Wealth, self-interest, lust, popularity, pride or even laziness. Sometimes we get complacent and allow our hearts to stray, taking our focus off of God’s plan for us and focusing on what the world has to offer. See it takes strength and love to keep our heart near to God, because of all the distractions in this world and that’ Satan’s plan. Satan doesn’t care if our heart is on him, he just wants to make sure it isn’t on God and he’ll use whatever it takes to change our heart. We only have a short time left here on this earth before we go home and I want to go home to the words of my Lord, well done good and faithful servant.

Application: I wake up each morning starting my day off in prayer and even then I can get distracted by my own thoughts. Then as my day starts out there are obstacles, problems to solve and things to do in this world and my mind gets distracted and I forget about God and my heart turns to my false gods of pride, finances and self-perseverant in this life. I’ll catch myself from time to time, but my heart isn’t commented completely to my God. I need to catch myself as I drift and pull away my heart and go right into prayer asking forgiveness and strength to draw closer to my God.

Prayer: My Lord you have created me and you know my heart and sinful ways and yet you love me. Help me be more by giving you by complete heart. I need your strength, self discipline, wisdom and courage to do this. Please Lord I give you my heart mold it to please you.