Heart Surgery
On the last Monday of each month, the Kyiv Christian Women's Fellowship meets at our flat...typically a time of networking, encouragement, some singing. A time for Christian women living in Kyiv and environs to get together...from differing denominations, differing ministries, differing mission organizations. It is really a sweet time of fellowship.
Tonight our speaker asked us an important question, "Do you need heart surgery?" Tanya (a young Australian mother of two young boys) has lived in Ukraine since 1994. She and her husband are involved in a new church plant in a village about an hour-and-a-half from Kyiv. God has been working in HER heart over the last several months, and she was open enough to share some of those lessons with all of us.
She humbled herself, challenged us, encouraged us...
And, by the end of the evening, we all knew that we needed to ask the Great Physician to perform heart surgery on each one of us. We needed to refocus on Him, be motivated by our love for Him (the result of His love for US!), recognize that we cannot do anything of value without Him. We have rotten attitudes that need to be surgically removed.
Surgery can be painful, BUT we can rejoice in the fact that He loves us. That He will complete the work that He has started in us. He will not leave us nor forsake us...He will be with us as we go through whatever it takes to CHANGE us to the likeness of His Son.
Search my heart, O God.
