0254. A LIFE WITH WINGS.

A LIFE WITH WINGS.

"A new heart also will I give you" (Eze_36:26).

Introduction.

1. There is a very curious fact that most people are surprised to learn, that the hearts of birds are heavier, proportionately, than the hearts of men or other animals.

2. This is explained by the fact that the more the body works, the greater the demand on the heart, upon which falls the duty of driving the blood through the body, hence the heart develops and becomes heavier.

3. Birds are amongst the most hard-working of living creatures.

4. If this is true of the physical realm, is it not equally true of the spiritual realm?

5. If my life is to be a life with wings-

a. That is to say, a buoyant life, rising above the mere earthly and sensual-

b. A lofty life, a life lived in the presence and fellowship of God-

c. A life with a larger outlook-for loftiness enables one to take a broader outlook on things-

6. That can only be possible by possessing a larger heart than we have by nature.

7. If my life is to be a life with wings, and I am to mount up in soul to God daily and live in the clear atmosphere of God’s presence, I must have a larger heart.

I. A Large Heart Required to Live the Christian Life. How can one mount up with a stony heart? And that is the kind of heart we have by nature.

II. A Larger Heart Required to Run as well as Mount Up (Psa_119:32). "I will run in the way of Thy commandments, when Thou shalt enlarge my heart." Unless my heart is enlarged, I shall be unable to obey God perfectly, unable to run in the way-the narrow way

III. The Most Active for God are those with Largest Hearts.

IV. Larger Heart Result of Reflection. In Psa_90:12, we see that the need of another heart, to make the best of man’s short life, is or ought to be, the outcome of reflection on the transitions of life.

Preliminaries. Cleansing first (Eze_36:25), then a new heart.

Autor: James Smith