The Checkup

There is a man in our field who went to the doctor this year, and after the doctor had checked him over a bit he said, you have a heart murmur. He then proceeded to explain to him what is a heart murmur. He said, you can't hear it but I can hear it. It is just a little tiny sound in your heart that isn't in harmony with the normal functions of the heart. I never realized that the heart made so much noise until I listened to my own. It has lots of noises going on in it. You can hear the blood rushing through from one compartment to another and out through the artery and you can hear the muscles contracting that makes that thump. It is a pretty noisy outfit, but the doctor is not listening to all of the normal noises, he is listening for abnormal noises. Just a little murmur and he said, we are going to have to keep a watch on that. It is not too much right now but it could get worse and it could lead to problems. I thought about when the children of Israel murmured. There were several times when they murmured. A murmur is just a little noise. They weren't shouting or having an open rebellion. That little murmur led to restlessness. A murmur on our part is going to lead to restlessness. A murmur is just discontent and discontent leads us in to restlessness and restlessness causes us to wander, to wander in our purpose, to wander in our ways, to wander in or thoughts. Wandering always leads us outside of the will of God. That is what it did to the children of Israel in a natural sense. That is what it does to God's people today in a spiritual sense. A little murmur can lead to restlessness and then that restlessness leads to wandering in our purpose, in our thoughts, in our willingness. Wandering only leads outside of the will of God. We cannot afford any heart murmurs in our walk with God. The doctor said we are going to have to keep a watch on that because it doesn't get better, it only gets worse. We are thankful that spiritually it can get better, it can be completely done away with. A work can be done that will make this murmur go away and we can leave convention being completely content with the way that God is leading. That contentment is going to lead to being settled where the anchor doesn't move and really settles in. That is the kind of content that I want to have in my life. -Tom Hinkle