His Seat

It’s amazing what people will do to be the first-in-line or get the best seat.  There seems to be no limit to what some will do, the extents they will go.  The closest I’ve come [I suppose] is having Mr. Bill set up my beach chair and umbrella at dawn to make sure I have a front-row ocean seat.  He’s a sweetie, don’t you think!

Who has the best seat in your heart?  Maybe we don’t think about God’s heart too much because … well, He’s God!  But did you know Scripture tells us what grieves God’s heart?  The second time the word heart appears in Scripture is in Genesis 6:6 – “The LORD was grieved in His heart.”  Now, what would make the heart of Almighty God sorrowful? Rebellious man, of course!  While the heart is our intellect, it also is where our emotions originate: anger, compassion, sorrow, happiness, etc.  It was compassion that moved the Samaritan to rescue the injured man on the road to Jericho.  Jesus' heart was torn between will-of-the-flesh and The Father’s will hours before the cross in Gethsemane’s struggle -- “My soul (heart) is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death.” (Matthew 26:38).  Pastor Tony used to say we must not be ruled by our emotions, but we shouldn’t ignore them either.  What, then, do we do with intellect and emotion?  Will they ever be at war within us?  Because the heart is seat to both, we must seriously consider what is seated on the seat.  The seat of the heart must be the Truth of God, not human foolishness.  When the Truth of God is properly seated and rules the heart, the Holy Spirit will use that Truth to instruct and guide us in every way.  The overwhelming theme of Psalm 119 is the importance of a heart well-seated in God’s commandments.  They give life (V.92), they are wise (V.98), they are sweetness (V.103), they light our way (V.105), they shield us and bring hope (V.114), and they are righteous (V.138).  The best seat in my house is the Queen Chair – that’s Mama’s chair.  It is God and His Precepts that should be seated in the heart of every born-again believer.  Today, let God have His Seat!