Renovation of the Heart

I needed something to root my mind in that wasn't hype, that was solid and stable and true and real and deeper than my circumstances.

And I want to read for you the sentence that God gave me through our friend Dallas Willard, this book, Renovation of the Heart, that I have lived with for some time now.

This is on page 134 if you're reading through his book.

And it's a statement about peace.

The fixing is with God's help.

Like I heard, um, I think maybe it was a Dallas Willard in The Renovation of the Heart, someone extrapolating a, a illustration from it, but that God is like, like Jesus is like a carpenter who's willing to go into the deep rooms of your heart room by room and flick- fix the floorboards and rebuild the furniture and stuff like that into the deepest rooms of your hearts, but He needs to be invited in to go.

He's not gonna force His way into that door, into that room.

Um, and so I think this is where the David, like, "O Lord, search my heart," you know, pull out the stuff in you.

If your brain chemistry gets out of balance, then you start being afraid for no good reason.

And so the couple of things that were very helpful about thought, Doubtless Willard said in Renovation of the Heart that— Emotions make wonderful servants, but terrible masters.

And he said, you don't want to live your life by emotions.

You have to train yourself to live your life by your thinking and what you believe.

So we'll use the example.

This is one that Dallas Willard uses in his book, Renovation of the Heart.

He uses the example of learning a new language.

So let's say I want to learn Spanish.

If grace is appropriated by doing, by loving God with all of our heart, then our neighbor is ourselves.

You wrote about that, Dr. Lillard, in Renovation of the Heart, about being fully engaged.

But then the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, and so on.

Would you say that it is to walk in the Spirit that we appropriate the fruit of the Spirit?

You move too fast and that's not gonna work.

And whoop-de-woo, you know? And I was just remember being like, you know not just sad about it but i was kind of like you know whatever but also what i've learned is you are ahead of your time because you're how old are you 61 okay so my parents are 62 and you are really one of a kind of your generation because that generation had no sense of innovation no like none none and it's so crazy because they they they just don't have it and of course there's always an exception you're the exception but it's just they you know they all these things they told me i didn't want to do none of that stuff none of i just did it because it was like it made sense but now look at what i'm doing now so it's just it's just interesting so This quote comes from The Renovation of the Heart by Dallas Willard.

It says, the greatest need you and I have is the renovation of the heart.

This also is based off of Proverbs 4.23 that says, guard your heart for everything you do flows from it.

So many men spend years, and I like to say, building careers, businesses, and titles, but neglect the condition of their heart.