It's a Heart Thing

Ok, so my youth pastor talked about this tonight at my youth group. But i was actually planning on writing something tonight about it beforehand. Anyways, the heart is the center of your being. It affects your life, your spiritual desires, your everything. I've been struggling with this with God the past few nights. Is my heart where it should be? Am I really giving Him my all, or is it just topical? Is my heart filled with God, and not me? And what God has really shown me out of this, is that my heart always has room to grow, but also that giving my all looks so different than what I've been doing. I need passion. Passion to read His word, to fellowship, to worship, to praise Him, to grow in Him. So I am pretty much saying i need passion to do everything. I realized through my wrestling with God, that I have been too prideful, looking too much at the outside things, instead of becoming like God and focusing on the heart. Let me ask you this, is your heart where it should be? where it can grow? I know mine hasn't been. Tonight at my youth group, we sang here i am to worship. I love that song, and it really impacted me because of the bridge at the end, "I'll never know how much it cost, to see my sin upon that cross." My heart, IS NOT MINE! I never had to pay anything to save it. My heart BELONGS to Jesus! No one else, no matter how many things around me try to tempt me and take my heart away from Him, I will not give in. Because I have the Lord's strength in me. Because ever since that blood dripped from his skin, blood that should have never been on this earth in physical form. Ever since that blood hit the ground. It was over. Over, for sin, for Satan, for my heart. He had won my heart. He saved me from the clutches of the abyss to raise me up higher than the mountains. My heart is not my heart any longer, but belongs to Him. And since it belongs to Him, I want to fight for it so that it stays that way. Because if you change your heart, you change your actions. And you have two choices, choose to give your heart to sin that only leads you on a downward spiral, or choose to give it to Christ, who formed you. Who bled for you, who put his passion and love and life into us, so that we may be saved. I know I'm jumping around a lot here, but what I'm trying to get at is that we owe Christ everything, and it starts with your hearts. I dont know who you will give your life to, but I'm choosing to give my heart to Christ. And pour my passion out on those around me. So that they may see my good deeds and praise our Father in Heaven. Be passionate about the Lord. Because He gave His passion for you. I want to leave you with this, "What am I without God? Who am I without God?" Surrender your heart to God, not just topically, but to your very core, surrender it to Him, and live your life for your savior. Sorry for the disorganization, i just felt like pouring out my heart.