My dad used to say to me, when I was a kid, “Listen, son. Half-hearted Christians are the most miserable people of all. They know enough to feel guilty, but they haven’t gone far enough with Christ to be happy. Be wholehearted for him!”
I used to roll my eyes when you said that. I don’t any more.
By: Dr. Ortlund
And a thoughtful comment worth sharing...by Robert Lombardi
Half hearted Christian is really something of a misnomer. You either have a renewed heart or a dead heart. There’s no middle of the road heart. Thinking about Pilgrim’s progress, the half-hearted Christian would have been one of those guys coming from the alternate routes and eventually wandering off the path or finding out that they didn’t have their certificate in the first place.
Listen to how Spurgeon describes miserable Christians:
“… trials make more room for consolation. There is nothing makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I always find that little, miserable people, whose hearts are about the size of a grain of mustard-seed, never have had much to try them. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows — who never weep for the sorrows of others — very seldom have had any woes of their own. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation. God comes into our heart — he finds it full — he begins to break our comforts and to make it empty; than there is more room for grace. The humbler a man lies, the more comfort he will always have.” – Spurgeon
God comes into your heart and will clean out that junk and make more room for Him: that’s comforting.
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