RE: The Ransomed Heart - Something Up His Sleeve

This morning I received another Ransomed Heart email from John Eldridge.  I really didn’t have time to read it however a friend had told me that it was specifically written for her.  As I read this, my heart was deeply moved.  Such were some of us…or rather, such were all of us.  However, those of you who became children of God at an early age, you have so much to be thankful for.  I know you sometimes hear the testimonies of those who were saved later in life with all of their stories of what God delivered them from, but oh to be clean and innocent at an early age…what a blessing.  Be thankful…guard your heart even more diligently to present your life to Christ, pure and unblemished.  For many, the letter from Eldridge below may hit a little too closely to home…it is very powerful.  I would like to write more about the text he sites…perhaps tomorrow.

Something Up His Sleeve 10/28/2007 Rescuing the human heart is the hardest mission in the world. The dilemma of the Story is this: we don’t know if we want to be rescued. We are so enamored with our small stories and our false gods, we are so bound up in our addictions and our self-centeredness and take-it-for-granted unbelief that we don’t even know how to cry out for help. And the Evil One has no intention of letting his captives walk away scot-free. He seduces us, deceives us, assaults us—whatever it takes to keep us in darkness. Like a woman bound to an affair from which she cannot get free, like a man so corrupted he no longer knows his own name, the human race is captive in the worst way possible—we are captives of the heart. Their hearts are always going astray. (Hebrews 3:10) God is filled with the jealousy of a wounded lover. He has been betrayed time and again. The challenge God faces is rescuing a people who have no idea how captive they are; no real idea how desperate they are. We know we long for Eden, but we hesitate to give ourselves back to God in abandoned trust. We are captivated by the lies of our Enemy. But God has something up his sleeve. (Epic ,62-64) From The Ransomed Heart, by John Eldredge, reading 301 Ransomed Heart Ministries www.ransomedheart.com

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