From The Heart

"For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies."  Matthew 15:19.  One is not born to do evil.  He conceives evil in his heart.  We are as our heart is.  If we would do good, abstain, give, speak truth. and honor God, our heart must be good.  The evil of humanity is born in the heart.  The goodness of humanity is born in the heart.  As the heart is, so is the individual.  The corruption of a society erupts from the hearts of those who live in that society.  So, the heart must be changed.  Conduct is altered as the heart is altered.  Sin breeds in a heart of evil.  Righteousness only comes from a fountain that is pure and clean.  The heart is that fountain.  God works on the heart by using the gospel message.  The Holy Spirit abides in the converted heart bringing forth God's work.  Evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies are a blight upon society.  These evils bear the fruit of heart ache and pain.  These evils sow the seeds of discord and separation.  These evils bring forth God's wrath.  The fountain from which these evils spew is the heart.  May we be vigilant to change our heart.  Our lives will be blessed as well as the lives of all humanity.