Where Is Your Heart?

I have been blessed in my life to have seen some quite interesting and beautiful places.  While my Mother’s Father never even travelled from his home here in North Carolina to see the Atlantic Ocean,  I have had the priviledge to see many places.    Back in 2004, I travelled across that same Atlantic Ocean to the continent of Africa to visit our oldest daughter, Heather, while she was serving with the Peace Corps in the country of Zambia.   I got to see there the largest waterfall in the world, Victoria Falls… ride on a raft down the white waters of the Zambezi River while crocodiles laid along the river watching… see giraffes and rhinos in their native habitat…  and meet the villagers in the tiny village where Heather lived.    One day while we were travelling north from Victoria Falls, we passed a sign along the road directing us to the David Livingstone Memorial.    David Livingstone was a missionary in Africa back in the 19^th century on behalf of his church.  Some consider him to be Africa’s greatest missionary.    He died in 1870 at the age of 60 years old.  One of the interesting things about Livingstone is that (at his request)  his heart is buried in Africa at that memorial, but the rest of his body is buried in London at Westminister Abbey.    Livingstone wanted his heart buried in Africa at his death because it was the place where his heart always was during his life.

In what place, what persons, and what things does your heart reside?     Livingstone’s heart was with the people of Africa.   What has captured your heart?     Jesus knew that an important question that every man and woman had to answer.    That is why he declared in Luke 12:34: 

³⁴ Because where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

Have a joy-filled week.-   Pastor Randy Wall

Prayer:  Loving God,  you have called us to love you with our whole heart.  Help us to love you more; through Jesus Christ our Lord.    Amen.