From the Heart by B.Demaere

  Thought Infestation (Jeremiah 4:14) Are we taking God seriously?   Could there be any bad or evil thoughts in us even though we are saved?   Are we immune?   Are we clean?   We need forgiveness, oh but we are forgiven.   What about confession and repentance?   Could God be looking at us and see maybe even a little bit of fault in us?   Are we too proud to admit that we need his help? When I read this verse out of the Amplified version of the English Bible, it is very close to the French translation that I read. “O Jerusalem, wash your heart From wickedness, That you may be saved. How long will your wicked and Immoral thoughts Lodge within you?   I know some of you like me are saved, but why do we let evil thoughts lodge within us (Ouch!)   In fact, in the first part of the verse in French, it says: “Jerusalem, if you want to be delivered wash or clean your heart of its wickedness. How long will you be indwelled by evil thoughts?” And verse 15, does not leave

  Help Me God! (Psalm 43) As I meditated on this Psalm, I did not realize that today would be Thursday and that the post had to be published today which I am doing right now. The psalmist is experiencing adversity.   Does that ever happen to you?   Life can be chaotic. Most of my chaos happens because of my attitude to situations I find myself in.   They are all reactions filled with a lot of up-and-down emotions. Most of my situations and feelings through them can be dealt with the Light and Truth of God. Verse 3 (French Bible transliteration) “Make me see your Light and Truth, May they guide me to your holy mountain, (Light) May they drive me to your dwelling!” (Truth)   Light guides us Truth leads us.   Verse 4- Don’t you feel his desire to be with God and where he really is? He, then, realizes his mistake and notes that God is indeed his greatest JOY. Folks, there is nothing else that will bring you JOY like God.   Money is futile and does not last and s

  Move On You might be wondering what I have been up to during the last month and a half.   Hello everyone! How have you all been doing? My wife and I have made a huge move of over 1000 km south of where we were.   Over here it is not as cold as up North. A lot of us like our comfort zone maybe a bit too much.   So much so that when its time to move we say: “No way! I like it here”.   We might like our comfort zone so much that we might miss entirely what God has in store for us. Our comfort zone could become our danger zone very quickly. Well, all this to tell you our move was far from being easy.   We had to push through and when we had gone through one obstacle.   Boom! There came up another one unrelated.   That we are exhausted.   We are no longer spring chicken; my wife and I are in our 60s and we feel it. Along with my mental illness, we had many challenges. For my encouragement and yours perhaps! I have Psalms 42 and 43 to share and more precisely verse 5 and 11 in