Recently I have been caught up by trying to wrap my head around, the heart. Where exactly the heart lies. Is it the actual physical organ? Or is it really the deepest cavern of our self, that can't be physically touched, manipulated or examined by any human or creation.
“When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever.”
“The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.”
“Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.”
“The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.”
“The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand”
“Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.”
What is this sacred entity that seems to possess great power yet can be the single thing that paralyzes and cripples a person if damaged?
I wanted to understand more about the heart beyond any preconceived idea that I had had before. And decided to take a closer look, in the only place trustworthy of definition.
"And you, my son, acknowledge the God of your Father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart & understands every motive behind the thoughts."
1 Chronicles 28:9
"Create in my a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me." Psalm 51:10
"I run in the path of your commands, for You have set my heart free; Turn my heart toward Your statutes & not toward selfish gain." Psalm 119:32, 36
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding." Proverbs 3:5
"Keep my commands and you will live; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart." Proverbs 7:1,3
"You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:13
& the best: "Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life." Proverbs 4:23
From just reading these few verses one can conclude, that a heart is not simply an organ or a well knit outline of emotions, but rather, a freedom seeker, a motive maker, a longing for honesty, a tool for inscription, a compass, a natural spring & originally designed.
wow.
When one is aware of the immense capacities, duties and desires found constructed in a heart, it becomes the second most sacred part of a person, behind the Spirit. It is the doorway for the Lord to enter into your Spirit. It also a doorway to distraction. & destruction.
Here is a reality that I have realized very harshly: A "divided" heart is a "broken" heart.
And here's an even harsher truth. "broken" doesn't mean gaping.
Despite the smallest fracture or splinter, a portion is separated.
Divided.
Are you honestly asking God to "search your heart?" Are you even aware of where your splinters linger?
Divided attention.
Divided desire.
Divided longing.
Divided companionship.
Divided focus.
Divided ambitions = Divided hearts.
Here's another doosey: Any desire that is beyond wanting to know Jesus more than anything else or anyone else is not a desire of the Spirit.
So what do we do?
We pray in full earnest God to search our hearts. & we willingly let Him expose the harsh truths of where those deep fractures reside. Then we take heart. & press in.
Undivided hearts.
Undivided devotion.
With such natural tendency towards fragility, we all need to be taking more concern in the guarding and growing of our hearts.
That is what I am praying for all of us today.
Let Him do the work, that only He can do.
Teach me Your way, O Lord;
& I will walk in Your truth.
Give me, an undivided heart,
that I may fear Your name...." Psalm 86:11
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