My temptation is to get big head and think highly of myself when people praise me and give me attention. The opposite is also true. When there are no praises and no affirmation my temptation is to quit and look to do something else. I want to feel good when I do something.

As Christians we have an audience of One. We seek not to impress men, but God. We don’t even seek to do what feels good. But our heart must be to the One who is the lover of our souls. Our heart must be SO in love with our true LOVER that when other people woo us with praises or when offered the riches of the world we see that our Lover offers us even greater riches in Himself or even ignored, we find our contentment and satisfaction in our Lover.

I’m seeing more and more these days how temptations are grabbing at me. Trying to get me to taste and bite and feel and see and experience and experiment. My heart is so easily capture, enraptured, and prone to unfaithfulness. I am grateful for a forgiving God. I am also grateful that He is interceding for me, helping me, counseling me… for I cannot survive the assault.

Holy Spirit, fix my heart to you. Lord Jesus, my savior and lover of my soul. Father, I long to hear the words “well done, good and faithful servant” but may it come only from you. O how I long to be faithful.