June 17

OK, Lord, You’ve done it again. You’ve stumped us. So often, Your Word, which we know is simple enough for the most childlike among us to gain the knowledge of salvation through Jesus, states truth in a way that sometimes confounds those of us who ponder a bit too much; who rely a bit too heavily upon our own intellect.

And yet, upon reflection, light (no pun intended) penetrates the darkness of our minds and illumines us with insight we know we could not have reached without the help of the Holy Spirit who has among His tasks, the illumination of the dreary minds of genuine seekers of truth.

In Proverbs 16:1, You say, “The reflections of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.” It would almost seem that the reverse of that statement would be true—that a man’s heart should belong to the Lord even though his tongue may expose his own thoughts that dwell there.

That is so for the natural man who has not yielded his heart to the occupancy of Jesus Christ. The unsurrendered heart of a man does expose the darkest aspects of itself through his words. But the heart that is given to God should ponder the things of Christ—and then his tongue should speak of His salvation.