Time to RESET Your Heart!

I have been keenly tuned in to what God is saying about reset. It’s one thing to hear a Word from God but it often takes prayer and meditation to understand what God is saying in that word. It is amazing how much Father God can pack into one word!

Do you remember when you first received Jesus as Lord or when you were first baptized with the Holy Spirit? Jesus seemed so real, so alive. Verses in the bible seemed to jump off the page.

Have any of you ever experienced a decrease in that initial joy and excitement? You may have heard things like, “The honeymoon’s over,” or “the Christian life is full of ups and downs, peaks and valleys.” Don’t believe these excuses. The more you get to know our precious Lord, the more white hot on fire for Jesus you will be.

Galatians 5:4 tells a very eye-opening clue to what causes ups and downs in Christianity.

Galatians 5:4 in the KJV reads, “Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. “

Here’s are some other versions to help clarify:

Darby Bible Translation
Ye are deprived of all profit from the Christ as separated [from him], as many as are justified by law; ye have fallen from grace.

Weymouth New Testament
Christ has become nothing to any of you who are seeking acceptance with God through the Law: you have fallen away from grace.

NKJV
You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

When we do not renew our minds to what Jesus has done for us and begin to think we must do something to be justified before God we are missing it. Ask yourself, “do I really know this following scripture?”

[Gal 2:16 NKJV] “knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

The law is not evil nor has it been done away with, the law is good, we just can’t fulfill it’s demands in our own efforts. The law of works has no power in it to change us or to make us righteous.

[Rom 8:2-4 NKJV] 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God [did] by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

I do believe that everyone one of us at some time is tempted to bring our good works or our failures into the throne room with us. We forget we have been crucified with Christ; we forget who we are, we forget our identity in Christ Jesus. We forget our performance alone does not justify us or disqualify us. They asked Jesus in John 6:28, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”

When we dwell on ourselves with a man-centered twist on the gospel instead of the redemptive power of the cross, Christ in us begins to have no effect on us. He is still there as He will never leave us nor forsake us, but we begin to live our lives as though He’s not. We wonder why He feels so distant. We wonder why we don’t hear His voice as easily as we used to. We wonder why we don’t see His power manifesting through us. And it leads us to look at ourselves even more to find what is wrong with us instead of meditating the finished work of the cross and the love our Father God has for us.

When we were first born again, we knew there was nothing we could do to make ourselves righteous or in right standing with God. We trusted completely in the blood of Jesus and His power to save us.

It’s time to return to the simplicity of the Gospel. It’s time to reset Jesus as Lord of your heart.