I must have an open heart in order to encounter God. It should be well-disposed, ready, prepared, moulded, full of expectancies, clean, if possible, without any sign of anguish, sadness, sorrow, pain, or rancour whatsoever, so that my encounter with God may be good and effective. Sometimes, this is rather difficult to achieve, for we often resort to God when we are undergoing serious difficulties, trials, problems and hindrances throughout our lives.
However, the Lord will lead us and put spiritually grown human beings at our side, so that they can help us to grow and mature in our faith and in our spiritual life of love relationship and communion with God. The Lord promised that He would never abandon us and that He would be with us every single day of our lives helping us in our Christian career. (Matthew 28:20 – Isaiah 41:10 – Psalm 27:10)
The Lord says that when He sees a hard heart, He will turn it into a good heart, so that He can enter and live into it forever.
The following biblical verses state what has been said:
"Then I will take away your stubborness and make you eager to be completely faithful to me. You will want to obey me”. (Ezekiel 11:19)
“I will give them a desire to know me and to be my people. They will want me to be their God, and they will turn back to me with all their heart”. (Jeremiah 24:7)
“I will make their thoughts and desires pure. Then they will realize that, for their own good and the good of their children, they must worship only me”. (Jeremiah 32:39)
We can clearly appreciate through these verses that if we open our sincere hearts to God, He will start preparing us, training us and guiding us day by day, during all our lives. However, He neither can nor want to compel us to do anything considering He has given us freedom to decide: According to our election, we will have to face the consequences or not, thereinafter.
The encounter depends basically on me, as I make up my mind to open my heart or not, considering God has conferred free will to us in order to decide. Likewise, God offers Himself through His Holy Spirit to change our heart if necessary: to mould, to heal, to clean, to purify and to restore it completely and integrally. That is, it is a joint work between God and me: I open my heart and He treats and works with my life.
Therefore, God also yearns to have encounters with us and to establish a love relationship forever with us in order to make us His children, if we accept Jesus Christ as our only savior through the repentance of sins with the final aim to give us eternal life!!!AMEN!!!
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