Proverbs 23:26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. I. LOVE PROMPTS THIS REQUEST OF WISDOM. 1. Only love seeks after love. We care not to be loved by those whom we do not love. When God asks human love it is because God is love. It is an instance of infinite condescension that God should say, "My son, give Me thine heart." The Great Benefactor becomes Himself the petitioner. It must be because of the great love of God that He condescends to put Himself into such a position. 2. It can only be supreme love which leads wisdom to seek after the heart of such poor things as we are. Wisdom must be of a most condescending kind. Only infinite love would come a-wooing to such hearts as ours. For what has God to gain? He is too great for us to make Him greater, too good for us to make Him better, too glorious for us to make Him more illustrious. He can gain nothing — we gain everything by the gift. Yet He does gain a son. II. WISDOM PERSUADES US TO OBEY THIS LOVING REQUEST. To take our hearts and give them up to God is the wisest thing that we can do. 1. Many others crave our hearts, and our hearts will surely go one way or the other. It is well to guard your heart with all the apparatus that wisdom can provide. 2. Wisdom urges to immediate decision, because it is well to have a heart at once occupied and taken up by Christ. III. LET US BE WISE ENOUGH AT ONCE TO ATTEND TO THIS ADMONITION OF WISDOM. When? At once. How? Freely. Do it thoroughly. You cannot give Christ a piece of a heart, for a heart that is halved is killed. ( C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.WEB: My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways. |
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