Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham.

The story is told of an old New England preacher who found that the clock in the back of his church would not keep correct time. Even worse, it was not consistent. Sometimes it ran too fast and other times it was too slow. After his attempts to reset the clock failed, the preacher hung a sign over the clock that read, “Don’t blame my hands — the problem is deeper than that.”

Human nature is such that we tend to look at the surface level problems in a life instead of going to the heart of the matter. At the heart of many of our problems is pride. It is pride that causes us to resist the Lord, to rebel against a parent, or to ignore the plight of those around us.

Rather than focusing on the hands, God is concerned with the heart. When you give your heart to Christ, He begins a work of cleaning you up and making you tick in His rhythm. Perhaps it is time for you to surrender your heart to the Lord today.