Tablet of the Heart

Bonnie Rait had a song several years go that she recorded, " I Can't Make You Love Me", a very difficult song about a one-sided love in a relationship that was about to end. The song  title is one that could be said to depict our Savior's song to us in the Church of America today. He has done it all for us and loves us with everything He ever had to give, even His very life. Yet, He can't make us love Him if we don't. He has never forced love upon any generation, but that love calls, it pleads for those in darkness to heed the light of His love. Heart-broken at our condition, the Lord is calling today! He is doing all he can to reach the heart of this dark generation. This generation of pollution and corruption. The Church of Laodicia must repent and turn back to the One who loves us and live for Him in all that we do.
Why can't the Church see the corruption and sorry state of our leadership in many cases. The fleecing of the sheep, the lack of true missions, the voices are diminishing that call to repentance a world of ever increasing perversion and wickedness. Where are the new voices? I'm sorry we have a different gospel message today, one that is enlightened from our great wisdom that those poor fore-fathers of the faith just didn't know, bless their hearts. They tried, but they just had so much to learn, we've finally got it with the "latter rain", right?
The one thing that is different about this "move" is that there seems to be a lack of commitment to purity in the Christian life, Honesty is optional I guess. Repentance doesn't mean turning from a sinful life anymore it means modifying your life, not a 360 degree turn, but maybe a 30 to at most 90 degree turn. What? It is a comfortable change not a change that requires a death, just a sickening of the old man, and it is just a deception of Hell itself.
 We must have the law of God written upon a new heart, one that loves in totality, immersed in the faith of our Father, a radical change from who we were. That old man must have been put to death and the new man fed with the word of  God and nurtured in Godly teaching. The choice you make is to die to your old-self and live for Jesus.
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.-Jeremiah 31:33
⁴ Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.⁵ For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, ⁶ knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. ⁷ For he who has died has been freed from sin. ⁸ Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, ⁹ knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. ¹⁰ For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. ¹¹ Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. ¹² Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. ¹³ And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. ¹⁴For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. Romans 6:4-14