A Believing Heart

For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. - Romans 10:10

    Consequential to his fallen nature, the heart of man does not, cannot, and will not believe God. In man there is no natural faith in Christ. Man’s heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. Man is self-centered, self-righteous and self-glorifying. If we do believe the Word of God, if we do have faith in Christ, it is because God in sovereign grace and mercy has given us a new heart. Believing with the heart is much more than a mere verbal agreement and mental accent to Biblical facts, as propagated by false preachers and teachers pressing upon men to accept Jesus as their personal saviour.

    A believing heartis one that lives unto God, embracing, loving, seeking, rejoicing in the precious Redeemer of their souls, the Lord Jesus Christ.

    A believing heartis one that hungers and thirsts after the righteousness of Christ, and has a God-given abhorrence of sin and self.

    A believing heartis one that daily takes up his cross, denying his own righteousness, repenting of his sin and unbelief and follows Christ by faith.

    Those whom God has given life and faith in Christ love the Gospel. Not just any so-called Gospel. They love the truth as revealed in the Lord Jesus Christ. It is utter nonsense to imagine that a sinner to whom Christ has been revealed in the preaching of the Gospel does not love to hear Christ preached, and has no desire to be committed to the Gospel. To profess to be saved and yet have no desire or use for the Gospel is a contradiction.

    The natural man is persistent in his pursuance of the things that satisfies his carnal cravings, even to the extreme. Likewise, the believing heart will not be denied of that one thing which satisfies the longing of his soul; the Object of his faith; the Lord Jesus Christ. One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple (Ps 27:4).