"Life is a journey of the heart that requires the mind—not the other way around. The church sometimes gets this backward and makes knowing the right things the center of life. It's not;
the heart is the center of life. Desire is always where the action is.
The key is to bring the TRUTH into our hearts to guard and guide our desire."
_Eldredge, The Journey of Desire
I was reminded and amazed when I reread what God says in Ezekiel 36:
25"I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.
26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you;
I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
28 Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God..."
God is giving them a new heart and moving them
to follow his decrees by
a softened heart AND implanted truth. WOW.
God is seeking worshipers who worship in spirit and in truth.
"The informed mind through the revealed Word of God and the Spirit's presence in our lives
inflames the heart,
and the heart creates the energy for the growing mind."
_Matt Chandler, Gospel Centered Worship, Village Identity Part 4
(current favorite sermon)
God is seeking worshipers with informed minds and inflamed hearts.
What is your heart set on? Your mind may be set on doing God's will but your heart may be desiring and longing for completely different things. I was convicted of this recently.
The heart is kind of a big deal. It truly guides ones life more than one realizes.
For example, one can believe that jealousy is wrong intellectually and tell oneself not to be jealous, but the moment ones coworker is granted a promotion, which leads?--ones mind (that believes jealousy is wrong and tells itself not to be jealous) or ones heart?
Your heart for sure. All things harbored in the heart are revealed .
It is a man's heart that reflects the man, not his mind.
Have the right thing in your mind intellectually,
and in your heart affectionately. _Chambers
Let us
"Love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind." _Matthew 22:37
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