As believers, having a tender heart toward God is essential to developing a relationship with Him. God speaks to the believer through their mind, will and emotions as well as through His word. In short, our soul is a communications portal in which there is a consistent exchange of information from us to God and from God to us. Think of it like a two-way street. The two-way street can only function if all the vehicles are within their lane and going in the right direction. Emotions like anger, rage or bitterness sends us in the wrong direction which as you know will result in head-on collisions, pile ups and catastrophe.
We should approach the throne of grace and ask for God to soften our hearts. We want God to tenderize us so that we have the capacity to discern when we are out of alignment with God’s will for our lives. We want to be able to know when we are hurting others or when we are openly disobedient to God. When we ask God to restore tenderness in our hearts, we give Him the permission to tear down the strongholds that have occupied our hearts for years. We ask Him to lead us beside still waters and restore our souls. We ask Him to give us soft hearts that are responsive to His voice. The bible says:
Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you… - Psalm 50:15 My help comes from the Lord… - Psalm 121:2
Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. – Matthew 6:8 We don’t have to let damaging emotions like anger, rage or having an offense trap us. They don’t have to hinder our maturity and intimacy with God. Instead, we need only call upon the Lord in our time of trouble, knowing that our help comes solely from Him. We need only open our hearts to receive all that He has for us. As believers, we must cooperate with the Holy Spirit and follow His leading. Because He knows the heart of God, the Holy Spirit will—with our participation—help to keep our thoughts kindhearted toward the Father. This allows us to forego the attitudes and thoughts that are offensive to the Father.
A tender mind will yield a tender heart and a tender heart yields a pliable spirit. A flexible or teachable spirit is one that can be taught, corrected, edified and entrusted. These are the people who are like clay in the hands of the potter. They allow themselves to be cut, trimmed and sculpted into a one-of-a-kind masterpiece that is absolutely flawless and 100 percent authentic.
Spontaneous, deliberate submission to God—a tenet in the Druze faith—will help God soften our hearts.
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