"I will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart; Before the gods I will sing praises to You.
I will worship toward Your holy temple,
And praise Your name
For Your loving kindness and Your truth; For You have magnified Your word above all Your name."
Psalm 138:1-2

Can we each say, 'my whole heart I give to You O Lord?' God desires this as Scripture tells us. How then do we give our hearts? We give--

In love:
"And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might." Deuteronomy 6:5

In obedience:
"Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart." Psalm 119:2 From our heart we ask, "Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; Indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart." Psalm 119:34

In trust:
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding." Proverbs 3:5

In prayer:
"And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.
And I will be found by you, says the Lord..." Jeremiah 29:13-14

In repentance:
"'Yet even now,' declares the Lord,
'Return to me with all your heart...'" Joel 2:12

Psalm 138 speaks of God's love and faithfulness; looking again at the verses above we see the blessings of God in the giving our whole heart to Him. These are all blessings of God's love, faithfulness and mercies.

The blessing of love in Deuteronomy 6:5 is given in verse 3, "O Israel, you should listen and be careful to do it, that it may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey."

Of those in Psalm 119:2 who are obedient, Scripture says, "Bless are the undefiled in the way, Who walk in the law of the Lord." Vs. 1

The blessing of trusting in Proverbs 3:5 follows in verse 6, "In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths."

The blessing of prayerful seeking in Jeremiah 29:13-14 we see in Vs. 11-12, "'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'Plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.'"

The blessing of repentance in Joel 2:12 we see in Vs. 13, "...Now return to the Lord Your God, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, bounding in loving kindness..."

To think that He, the Creator of all things, desires fellowship with mere man causes each heart to give itself freely. Christ Jesus the Lord, ransomed us and we are His; body, soul and spirit, therefore, He has every right to whole hearts. Let each yield his/hers wholly to Him in love, obedience, trust, prayer and repentance. Now with grateful hearts we give Him all the praise and honor that is due Him.  Amen