My Son, Give Me Your Heart

"My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways" Proverbs 23:26

The Lord has really been laying this verse on my heart. I was just flipping through my pocket Bible at work and it again caught my eye. The call to yield my heart becomes more and more apparent every day. God doesn't want my time, my money, my "good works", or my love. He wants my heart. Will some of those things be surrendered anyway? Sure. But God is in the business of winning hearts not possessions. This is just a poem I wrote about this verse and how it was speaking to me.


With a word the world came to be
and the sun did rule the sky.
With a breath the land came from sea
and the mountains did grow high.
My voice cried forth and brought to life
all the creatures I had made.
But with a breath I rolled the dice
on this man before me laid.
In everything that I had done
and the love I would impart,
I could not stop this war begun
or take from him his heart.
Pleading with man to just stay near,
not wander far from me,
I sent my Son, His mission clear,
to die upon a tree.
His cross cries out louder than words
the reason he came to die.
Yet the message remains unheard
as salvation you deny.
I do not ask what you can do
or give to do your part.
Instead my call goes out to you,
"My son, give me your heart"

I love the omnipotent quality of God the creator you portray in this verse. You do it so very eloquently. It's so awesome to know that God loved us so much that he created us knowing we would sin and his Son would have to pay the ultimate price. So it is a small thing for Him to ask that we "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your
neighbor as yourself."(Luke 10:27) He even knows we fall short in this and teaches us how to grow in this as we mature in Christ.