What is your heart glued to? In reading, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, Jeremiah Burroughs says there are only two options. Either your heart is glued to the world and the creature comforts therein or it is glued to the glory of Jesus Christ. To have a heart glued to the glory of God is to have a soul bound to eternal glory, joy, and ultimate satisfaction. On the other hand, to have a heart glued to the world only brings discontent, despair, and ultimate sorrow. Hear how Burroughs describes God’s calling our hearts from the world.
The disengagement of the heart from the creature is the calling of the soul from the world – ‘whom the Lord hath called he hath justified’ – what is the calling of the soul but this? The soul which before was seeking for contentment in the world, and cleaving to the creature, is now called out of the world by the Lord, who says: ‘Oh Soul, your happiness is not here, your rest is not here, you happiness is elsewhere, and your heart must be loosened from all the things that are here below in the world.’
How do you know what your heart is adhered to?
Something which is glued to another cannot be taken off, but you must tear it; so it is a sign your heart is glued to the world, that when God would take you off, your heart tears.
Does your heart tear when God takes something from you which is of the world? Or, is it easy to let go since your heart is not bound to such a thing? In a materialistic age and culture, we are surrounded by people who find it easy to set their affections on things, but they come to ruin and despair when they lose those things. How effortless it is to live by sight rather than by faith. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and a heart set on him will gladly let all the material things of this world go for the glory and greatness they see in Him. One’s heart can be seen in how they deal with affliction.
If God, by an affliction, should come to take anything in the world from you, and you can part from it with ease, without tearing, it is a sign then that your heart is not glued to the world.
What is your heart glued to?
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