Our Beth Moore bible study has finished for the summer. While it is still fresh in my mind, I wanted to share another insight into this study, something that Beth Moore called Wholehearted Devotion, having an undivided heart for God.

Beth asked the question “Do you have an undivided heart? Does God have a piece of your heart, but the rest belongs to you, or to someone else?”

This really got me thinking. She had a heart in her book that was divided into three parts. One part was “My selfish desires”, another part was “The approval of others”, and the third part was “God”. We were supposed to take a blank drawing of a heart and divide it up into sections and make each section coincide with the things that divide our heart.

I ended up figuring that God didn’t take up my whole heart…but I also wondered if that is even possible in this world, or in this lifetime?  What do you think? 

My heart loves God, but it also loves my husband. It also loves my hobbies, my friends, my family, my cats. I would be nowhere without God, and He has given me all the things that I have, so in that respect, God does take up my whole heart. But, as far as spending every hour, every thought, on God, that just doesn’t happen. He is always there with me, and I can feel His presence. I pray a lot, but not constantly…I still have selfish desires, I still have to care for my husband and my cats and my home, and I still have responsibilities at church and in my work. I don’t see how it is possible to have an undivided heart for God.

Then I decided that it is possible, but not in the way I was thinking before. I kind of look at God as being a blanket over my heart. He is a part of me, He is the reason I am here, the reason I live, the reason I do what I do each day. I can’t start the day without Him, I can’t end it without Him, I can’t live it without Him. But I still have responsibilities, things I have to do, people to care for, cats to care for, obligations to fulfill…and I can’t do any of it without Him. So, although my heart may be divided, it is all held together by God, and blanketed by Him, and shielded by Him.

David said this in Psalm 86:11...

I stand reverently at the feet of Jesus each and every day, and pray for His guidance on my life and my day.  My heart belongs to God, and longs for the day when I can be completely in His presence, where the cares and happenings of this world do not interfere with my praise.  Until then, I will do my best to have an undivided heart for Him, realizing that I still share my heart with the other things in this life that are important to me, but that God is at the center of it all.