Is your heart right ?!?

From the sermon "Unfulfilled dreams" by Martin Luther King


And this brings me to the basic point of the text. In the final analysis, God does not judge us by the seperate incidents or the seperate mistakes that we make, but by the total bent of our lives. In the final analysis God knows that his children are weak and they are frail. In the final analysis what God requires is that your heart is right.

Salvation isn´t reaching the destination of absolute morality, but it´s being in the process and on the right road.

Some weeks ago somebody was saying something to me about a person that I have great, magnificent respect for. And they were trying to say something that didn´t sound too good about his character, something he was doing.

And I said:
< Number one, I don´t believe it. But number two, even if he is, he´s a good man because his heart is right. >
And in the final analysis, God isn´t going to judge him by that little seperate mistake that he´s making, because the bent of his life is right.

And the question I want to raise this morning with you: Is your heart right ?
If your heart isn´t right, fix it up today; get God fix it up.
Get somebody to be able to say about you, "He may not have reached the highest height, he may not have realized all of his dreams, but he tried."

Isn´t that a wonderful thing for somebody to say about you: "He tried to be a good man. He tried to be a just man. He tried to be an honest man. His heart was in the right place."

And I can hear a voice saying, crying out through eternities:
"I accept you. You are a recipient of my grace because it was in your heart. And it is so well that it was within thine heart."


I don´t know this morning about you, but I can make a testimony. You don´t need to go out this morning saying that Martin Luther King is a saint. Oh, no. I want you to know this morning that I´m a sinner like all of God´s children.
But I want to be a good man !

Oh, this morning, if I can leave anything with you, let me urge you to be sure that you have a strong boat of faith. The winds are going to blow. The storms of disappointment are coming. It will be dark sometimes, and it will be dismal and trying, and tribulations will come.
But if you have faith in the God that I´m talking about this morning, it doesn´t matter.

And I say to you this morning: Yes, I´ve seen the lightning flash. I´ve heard the thunder roll. But I heard the voice of Jesus, saying still to fight on.
He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone !

And when you get this faith, you can walk with your feet solid to the ground and your head to the air, and you fear no man.