by Rhonda Rhea
Love is in the air. And chocolate. I love the fact that we get to eat guilt-free chocolate around Valentine’s Day—though I have no idea why that really is. If it’s chocolate and heart-shaped, it’s fair game.
We have a pup here at the Rhea house, though, who really doesn’t get it. We can’t give LuLu chocolate, but I guess we’ve accidentally dropped a chocolate chip or two and now anytime she sees it, she does a nose-dive right in. She eats anything and everything that even remotely resembles chocolate. Outside after a rain? It’s not a mud puddle to her, it’s a chocolate puddle. Get a load of the LuLu-dog after a romp through the “chocolate.”
We really need to have a heart-to-heart with this dog. And I don’t mean a chocolate heart.
Swallowing something just because it looks good enough or sounds right is no way for us to live either. How do we know what we should believe? We study, learn, memorize and live out the word of God. Knowing his word is knowing his heart. There is no better heart-to-heart than lining up our hearts with his. It’s not wishy-washy, always changing. It’s solid. You can trust it. You can build your life on it.
Psalm 119:89-93 says, “Your word, O Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. Your faithfulness continues through all generations; you established the earth, and it endures. Your laws endure to this day, for all things serve you. If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction. I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.”
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So why settle for dirt when we can have the delicious, life-preserving, ever-faithful truth of God? Loving God’s word out of love for him—that’s the kind of heart to heart that will make life sweet. Even if (gasp) there’s no chocolate.
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