The medicine we need for our heart
When you go to the doctor for a checkup, he probably asks how you’re feeling, checks your eyes and ears, and measures and weighs you. He probably also uses a stethoscope and listens to your heart. Why? Well, if your heart isn’t healthy, the rest of you isn’t, either. Your heart has an important job – it pumps blood all throughout your body and keeps you alive!
Do you know what the very first sin was? You might say it was when Adam and Eve ate the fruit that God told them not to, but you’d actually be wrong. Adam and Eve sinned in their hearts and minds even before eating the forbidden fruit. They didn’t believe God and they didn’t trust him. They were suspicious in their hearts.
That’s why the guy who wrote Psalm 139 asks God to search his heart and know his anxious thoughts.
You know who wrote that? David – the guy who fought Goliath and won. Defeating Goliath was a great deed, and David had to have a lot of faith to take on that giant! But David also recognized he was a sinner in his heart. He wrote Psalm 51: “Create in me a clean heart, oh God, and renew a right spirit in me.” David did some really, really good things in his life, but understood he still had a problem in his heart. And that’s not a problem he could take care of with a stethoscope or medicine.
The medicine for our hearts is called Jesus. Our spiritual hearts need Jesus. Your heart and my heart need Jesus every day.
Prayer
Father, thank You that we have doctors who listen to our physical hearts. But help us remember, like David did, that we have a spiritual heart that needs to be changed and washed clean. We need You to do something inside of us that no one else can do. Please wash away our sins today and help us to remember the medicine for our hearts is Jesus. Thank you for coming to make us clean from sin.
About the Redeemer Community Church PCA children's devotions:
Sometimes it can be hard to break down Biblical truths for our kids into easy-to-understand and easy-to-remember bite-sized pieces. Pastor Chuck does this weekly in his Children's Sermon, and we're sharing key points from those sermons here each week. Feel free to use with your littles as conversation starters throughout the week, reminders of what we learned in church on Sundays, and just general opportunities to share our love of God's word and His love for us.