Saturday, May 31, 2025

MAY 31, 2025

  “The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.” 


CHRONICLES 1-3

7That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.”
8Solomon answered God, “You have shown great kindness to David my father and have made me king in his place. 9Now, Lord God, let your promise to my father David be confirmed, for you have made me king over a people who are as numerous as the dust of the earth. 10Give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may lead this people, for who is able to govern this great people of yours?”
11God said to Solomon, “Since this is your heart’s desire and you have not asked for wealth, possessions or honor, nor for the death of your enemies, and since you have not asked for a long life but for wisdom and knowledge to govern my people over whom I have made you king, 12therefore wisdom and knowledge will be given you. And I will also give you wealth, possessions and honor, such as no king who was before you ever had and none after you will have.”(1:7-12)

JOHN 12:1-19

4But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, 5“Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.b ” 6He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.
7“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial. 8You will always have the poor among you,c but you will not always have me.”

JOURNAL 

It always comes back to the heart.

Across the whole span of scripture—Old and New—God is not chasing our performance, our wealth, our duties. He is pursuing the heart. Because the truth is: actions can be staged. Obedience can be mimicked. But the heart doesn’t lie for long. When the heart is in the right place, the fruit follows.

Judas never grasped that. Nor did many of the kings who reigned after Solomon. Somewhere along the way, money became the fix—the quickest way to escape pain or gain power. But it’s rarely the money itself that people crave—it’s what it allows: comfort, status, safety, control.

Judas thought money could solve whatever inner hunger he had. We’ll never fully understand his motives, but one thing is clear—he reached for silver instead of surrender.

And that’s the trap: when anything other than God becomes our refuge from suffering, it takes God’s place in our hearts. It could be money. It could be health, achievement, reputation, even relationships. The form doesn’t matter—only that it becomes our functional savior.

But there is only One who deserves that space. Only One who satisfies.


 13You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

JEREMIAH 29:13

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