About finding heart…
Ephesians 1:18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in
order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his
glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and his incomparably great power for us
who believe. (NIV)
Enthusiasm can vanish. You can burn out. Your motivation can disappear.
Whatever heart you have to do a certain thing or be a certain kind of person can
disappear. We do not often have problems with our motivation when we have it.
Our difficulties with being motivated appear when we have no motivation.
Adversity of many kinds can often devastate us and take away our heart. We even
use the term "lose heart" to describe those times when our motivation
has disappeared. Many times, we lose heart because we have lost sight of the
mental picture we had in our mind, the very mental picture that inspired us in
the beginning. Keeping our mental picture in focus and tangibly visible is
essential. Our mental picture is essential in keeping us motivated. Our vision
or mental picture has a way of getting erased or getting so blurred we do not
see the picture any more. To find your heart, you need to have a clear and
definitive mental picture of what it was that inspired you. Our passion to do,
to be, to serve, or to follow Christ has a way of melting down when our original
vision of doing, being, serving, and following Christ gets erased. To find your
heart, rebuild your vision. To find your heart, revisit where your heart was in
the beginning. While you are rebuilding your mental picture or vision, also seek
out His hope for your life. Christ's hope for you is your greatest inspirational
power. When you lose heart, you need to find the original hope of God that
fueled you. To find your vision and find your hope again, remember to pray and
meditate. When you pray and meditate, do not pray and meditate over the lost
nature of your heart today. When you pray and meditate, pray and meditate over
your original vision and your original hope given to you by God.
