2 Chronicles 12:14 And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek the LORD.
Prepare (H3559) – to establish, make firm, make ready, set up, to fix, provide for, to direct toward, arrange
The prepared heart is our defense against entropy. If our heart is not fixed and made firm and directed towards seeking the Lord and our life is not ordered and arranged to make this a priority, it will not happen.
Every morning when I get up I take my thyroid medicine. I know that it provides something that I don’t naturally produce enough of, it is for the benefit of my health, and I have experienced the downgrade in my overall well-being when I don’t take it for a period of time. I have it in a prominent place on my kitchen table and I have a routine that I follow. I have learned the importance of making sure that I do this every day by the consequences I experience when I don’t.
I have learned this in my spiritual life as well.
If the heart isn’t fixed to seek the Lord, the Lord will not be sought. Ten thousand things an hour will scream for urgent attention, the tasks of the day will demand our focusing upon them, and the fatigue of our body will cry out for the pillow…thus days, weeks, and years go by spent in pursuits that have no eternal consequence.
The heart must be made firm, determined, that Jesus has preeminence in the life AND in the time, for this will need to be defended frequently from the cares of this life that will attempt to encroach upon it.
Is it possible that the heart is not made firm in these things because the benefit (and the absolute spiritual necessity) isn’t realized? Oh God, help us to see how much we need You!
He is my Delight 