The Heart's Purpose

         I have learned a lot about how to Love God and then love others this past week. It all started with a Bible study called "God's Unfailing Love" but it got deeper as the week went on last week. In a strange but true way, I feel like the devil is trying to win my heart and I don't like that feeling. God and the devil both know my heart's purpose in life and if it doesn't please one of them like the devil, he will try to win me back. I use the word win very loosely because he never will get that far with me. My heart is in God's Hands and always will be even through the hardest of times.
         I can't write down all of what I'm going through but I will write some of it down so you can understand where I am coming from. You know when you write a friend a lot of emails and that friend doesn't write back but one of that friend's friends does write you back and you don't like it? You want your friend to read the emails and write back but that friend is too busy with things. You get mad at your friend's friend but you have no reason too because your friend's friend didn't mean for you to feel that way at all. For me, that is when the devil is trying to make me doubt and he wants me to stop doing everything for that friend but I am not going to.
          This title could be taken two ways and if I write it right you will understand the two ways that it could be taken. The way I like to take it is that God is working through me to that friend. God is letting me stand beside my friend through everything whether my friend knows it or not. I shouldn't be mad at anyone because I know everyone and they wouldn't try to even hurt me. I feel like that friend, I'll admit I might be wrong on this, might need an old time friend and I'm that friend. I like seeing my friend grow in so many ways and at the same time they help me grow too.
My heart's purpose is: to stay with this friend and rejoice with that friend when things are going good and vice via. I mean my friend is giving glory to God in all that is done. Why shouldn't I be rejoicing with my friend and just be happy. Just to be there for that friend through it all. What better way to be a friend then a friend that stays with you through everything then one who has already been with you and prayed for you through everything, right?
           At the same time, though, this title could be taken in a devilish way. This is what I mean by that. The devil knows that God wants us to live with Him forever so he will try and use everything to get us away from God. It could be at different times or the same time but he will use it.
My heart's purpose is: The devil only knows that we will be stronger together then apart because we have the same thought and purpose in life or close to it. By close, I mean our purposes could go together in a way. The devil doesn't want that at all. He doesn't want us to become stronger then how will he win us over. I will say this my friend and I love to win people for Christ so that is even harder. They might be different ages in different ways but we still have the main purpose at heart. The devil knows our hearts too and if people of the same purpose you can bet that those people will be stronger and that the devil is going to try and keep those people apart. It doesn't have to be just two people. It can be a group of 5 or a whole church.
              I've been in a church where there were fights among the church members because of a piece of farm land. They couldn't decide on whose it was or what to do with it. I'm not kidding. It is the little things that matter in life that sometimes the devil will get us on. The devil is out like a roaring lion seeking to devour people who love God. That is just his job. He is full of pride and thinks that everyone should worship him, when really God is the only one that we should be worshipping to and obeying. He got kicked out of Heaven because he wanted to be greater then God.

-"If we are both strong in God alone then it will be harder for the devil to get us if we are together. He knows our hearts and if we have the same purpose that purpose will be made stronger."
       
            Single people out there that are reading this, that is a good prayer to pray for you and your future husband. It came to me while I was praying and just had to share it. You want God the Center of your future married life so you both need to be strong in God so it is harder for the devil and it is even harder if you both of that same purpose in mind. You can encourage one another in Christ and the devil can't get in anywhere.  I'll be honest. I used to think that having that same purpose in mind didn't matter much, never really thought how it could affect a marriage, wanted a guy that had a fun but different purpose then me and I never really got the whole idea but now I do and I'm glad I get and see it. If I didn't, then life would be miserable in the long run.

This is only half of what has been on my mind this past week, mainly weekend. The other half I will write later and it is about where God is leading me, how, and why.