How To Reset Your Heart

The Psalmist said, I incline my heart. It has to

happen within, not just the behavior, but the belief that

drives the behavior has to change or the change won't stay.

We found this out over and over again. Every new

year we learn it again, and so lasting changes what

I'm after, and I incline my heart. Interesting choice of works.

If you incline something that means that it was naturally

not in that position. That means you had to act

upon it in order to orient it in a different direction. Right,

So we don't incline something that's already upright, must have

meant that his heart was declined. And the problem with

a lot of us is we go through life reclined.

That is just however we wake up. That's how we stay.

However we feel, that's how we act. This almost said,

I act upon my attitude, and I incline my heart.

Did you know you're in charge of your heart? Quit

saying people broke your heart. They can't break it if

you don't give it to them. Heyy, And so he said,

I'm setting my heart in the direction of heaven. I

wonder is your heart set in a divine direction? Today?

Incline my heart. I don't think this is something you

do like one time. You know, you just incline your

heart to God when you were twelve at summer Bible

camp and you never were tempted again. And we want

it to be that way. I want it to be

like the infomercial. Do you remember the infomercial with the

Rotisseriy show time Rotisseriy Oven and the man said, set

it and forget it. That's how I want my heart

to be like that infomercial, set it and forget it.

I want my heart to just stay there, you know,

just pay at the church first Sunday in January. That

outa get me by. I said it, But the psawmist said,

it's not enough to set it and forget it. He

said it, it's more like you said it. You check it,

you reset it, you check it. Because all through your

day and all through your year, your heart is going

to be tempted to decline to a default position. And

maybe it's a default position of discouragement or despair or dysfunction.

But when you take charge of your heart, touch your

neighbors say, take charge of your heart. That's what the

writer of Proverbs said. It's not just a psawmist that

did it. The writer of Proverbs said, guard your heart

is your heart, and that's where the issues of life

flow from. So before we can get the windows working,

we gotta get our hearts open. Hey man, the doctor

was fussin at me a couple months ago about my cholesterol.

Let's me know, I'm getting on up there in age.

I never had a conversation like this with the doctor before.

And he just talking talking, blah blah blah ldl HDL,

try glyse ride all this stuff. And I know we

could tell he wasn't getting through to me because he

took a real drastic turn. He said, hey, I don't

want you to be one of those guys who looked

real fit on the outside, which made me feel happy

that he said that about me. But then one day

you're just outside running and you just fallover of a

heart attack, and to listen to me, and I corrected him.

I said, doctor, I know you got some degrees that

I don't have it all that, but you're wrong about that.

I don't run, so if I fall over, it's not

gonna be on cardio. But he said, you can be

blocked on the inside. I'd look good on the.

Outside and be successful and fall over, and be sexy

and fall over, and be married and fall over, come on,

get a promotion and fall over, be religious, and fall over.

It has to happen in the heart. But it doesn't

start with the heart. It starts with the habits. Your

habits create the condition of your heart. It is good.

Every once in a while, you got to stop and

clap with.

The word God speaks to you. I feel like God

is going to help somebody set your heart on things above,

get your heart set in the right direction. But it's

going to require some habits, and they're all right there

in the sawm. I want to read you the next

two verses because my three habits are right there in

the verses. Forever to the end. I set my heart

to perform your statutes. I hate this is one thirteen.

I hate. I hate what's that we're doing in the Bible.

I thought I was supposed to love everything. Now I

hate the double minded, but I love your law. I

don't think we should go on until we talk about that.

He said, I hate this. I hate the double minded.

I hate It's not a person. I hate, it's I

hate the condition of double mindedness. I hate it. And

see the thing about the thing about hate is hate

is the most powerful motivation to change, not love. And

so before you start with wanting to reach your goals,

maybe the first thing for you to do is to

make a decision about some things that you hate. And

it's going to be complicated because you know, as for me,

I have a love hate relationship with some of the things.

I feel kind of like David. One time, David's son

Absalom died and joe Ab came to him. He said,

your son is dead, and David started weeping, and joe

Ab was mad because Absolom was trying to take the

throne from David, and so Absolom had become David's enemy.

But David's heart was connected to Absolom. So he was crying,

and Joe Ab said, you need to get it together.

You hate those who love you, and you love those

who hate you. You hate what's trying to deliver you,

and you love what's trying to destroy you. And I

feel that way about certain things in my life, certain action,

certain behaviors in my life. I love how they feel

for a minute, but I hate the crash and certain

things in my life. I hate how they feel when

I'm doing them. I hate the plank exhibit A. I

mean I was for years. I was one of these people.

I would tell you to your face, I hate to exercise.

You can go back and watch my sermon videos from

three years ago. I was standing on the stage and

saying I hate to exercise. You know why I hated

it because it wasn't to have it. I didn't do

it enough to love it. I hated it. But you

don't have to accept your default attitude toward anything. I

incline my heart. I'm gonna teach today. You came out.

I'm gonna make it work your while. I'm gonna teach

it today. Get that elevation pen ready. We're gonna burn

it up today and get a new one next week.

I grew to hate. I think the moment of realization

for me was when I was paying Andy four hundred

and fifty dollars to come over to my house and

let my pants out. I hated it. I looked at

Andy and I said, I hate this man. I could

be using this money to buy new clothes, and I'm

paying it to you to make my clothes bigger. I

hate this, and he said, hey, keep eating. It's job

security for me. That's what my Taylor said. I said, no, man,

I hate this. I hate this feeling. And sometimes sometimes

before you can make a change, you have to be

motivated by I know it's a strong word of some

very pastoral. You have to hate it. You have to

hate it. You have to hate self pity. Wow. And

the problem with hating self pity is ooh, it feels

good like a bag of Dorito's on your tongue. See

it's not that I hate the taste of Dorito's. I

just hated what it did to my waist. This is

so good. Sounds simple, but it's real deep. He said.

I hate the double minded. I love your law. Before

I can do what I love, I have to know

what the hate. I hate this, I hate the way.

I hate the way watch watch. I love what it

does for me, but I hate what it does to me.

It's a complicated relationship. A bag of Doritos does something

for me, am I not doing anything for you. It

does something for me. I have a long standing relationship

with carbohydrates. They have been there for me in the

midnight hour when I couldn't call on anybody else I

could call on chocolate. So I love it, but I

hate I love what it does for me, but I

hate what it does to me. I hate all this.

I hate anger. Oh it makes me feel good, it

even gets me some results. I have a complicated relationship

with anger. If you get mad enough, you can get

people to do what you want. But then you're all

alone after they do it. Nobody wants to be with you.

I hate being angry because I hate being alone. Somebody

shall outcome. I hate the outcome of this and that.

I hate it. I hate what it does to my marriage.

I hate what it does to my relationships. I hate

how it disturbs my inner piece and puts me in

a state of turmoil. And it's complicated. It's a complicated

relationship that I have with complaining. I love to complain. Ooh,

I love to tell somebody you can look at there,

at me when the boom bosom's doing do it. Bible says,

don't do it, but it didn't say it doesn't feel good.

Hey man, it feels real good to complain. It feels

like a choice morsel going down. I mean, just as

it's coming out of your mouth, just to unload on them.

When somebody says, how are you doing? Just let them

know for five minutes, every age, every pain, every disappointment,

every struggle. But guess what, the next time they see

you coming, they're going the other way, because it's the

law of diminishing returns. It gets you high for a minute.

I love to talk that about people. I do. I

shouldn't say these things. I tell myself every week after

I finish on Sunday when I'm watching back my sermon verdict.

Don't say stuff like that. People put it on YouTube

and use it against you as a weapon. But I

just got to tell you. I love it makes me

feel really good about my dysfunction to spend a little

time discussing yours. I love to talk about other people's

dumb decisions. I love it. It's just it's a natural

high because if I can get you down here, then

I feel right like I'm right here. Only problem is

I'm setting myself up for decline. And now the next

time I see you, I can't treat you better than

I talk about you, so it ruins my relationships. I

love what it does for me. It does something for me.

Come on, how many will admit it does something for

you to talk about what Henry did and what Susie

wore and what they should have done and what their

kids are like. But by the same measure you judge,

you will be judged. I love the taste, but I

hate the outcome. I hate it. The problem with a

lot of our resolutions for change is that they are

not motivated by a healthy kind of hate. Healthy hate. Yeah,

there is a healthy way to hate. I hate racism,

I hate poverty. That's the only thing that will motivate

me to do anything about it is I've got to

hate it. I hate bullying. I hate bullying. I was

bullied Tony Wigfall jacked me up against the wall. I

still remember my head cracking against the wall and my

friend Hamilton looking at me, saying, don't look at me, man.

I still remember the view from up there, and I

can't see somebody being picked on without seeing myself from

up there, just wondering, this is this guy gonna break

my face? I hate it. I hate it. Holly said

to me the other day, she said, I hate being late.

Notice she didn't say I love being early, because she doesn't.

But you got to get to the point we were

going to see somebody. She said, I don't want to

walk in like that. And until you hate being late

more than you love hitting snooze, you won't make the change.

Get that thing on your mind, that back of Dorito's,

and say I hate it. Look at your neighbors, say

I hate it, not I hate you. I hate it.

I hate it. I hate it. I hate the double minded.

I hate indecision. I hate it. I'd rather make a

bad decision than make no decision. I hate procrastination. I

hate it. I did it a lot, but I finally

got to the point where I hate it now. I

hate the discipline of preparation too. But I hate the

pain of procrastination more than I hate I hate it.

And I actually said to somebody the other day, I

said I never thought i'd hear myself say this, And

I used to hate people who said this. I think

I like exercise. After three years of doing it five

days a week and finding out what works for me,

I think I'm one of those people that I used

to roll my eyes at. I think I like the exercise.

I think i'd reset my heart. I declare reset, I

declare reset. There are some things in your life that

have been on the decline. But God brought you to

church on the first weekend of the year, and you're

setting your heart in a different direction. Hold on, You're

gonna love the presence of God this year. You're gonna

love the word of God this year. You're gonna love

the right things this year. Train your brain to hate it.

Train your brain. I know that's what my dad was

trying to do when he made us eat all the

food on our plate when we overfilled it at the

Ryan's buffet vacation Memories. He said, you're gonna eat every

bite on that plate, and me and my brother took

turns causing diversions while the other one stuffed our pockets,

and we walked out of Ryan's with pockets full of food.

Never forget it. He wanted me to have an association,

he said, I want you to hate waste. Maybe that's

why sometimes God lets us get so low. So I

hate it, so I will despise Egypt, because if I

didn't despise it, I would be tempted to go back. Hey,

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