The heart. It's the power center of the soul; will, mind, and affection.
It is my heart—your heart. United hearts. Kingdom hearts. Foolish hearts. Broken hearts. Our souls require awareness, compassion, and, best of all, love.
Hearts that inevitably wish for more than what we are receiving.
I am only beginning to comprehend the richness and complexity of the heart. Discovering that head and heart knowledge is quite a tricky thing.
Reading God's Word is an incredibly meaningful experience. It allows us to connect deeply with our faith and build unwavering trust in its teachings. The fact that it has been specifically selected for each of us only adds to its worth and significance.
God works with methodical precision and a more thorough purpose than we can ever dream of.
He presses for the root of our souls. It's alright if we don't fully understand something, as God will grant us understanding when we are ready.
Do we allow our hearts to witness and be more attentive to Him and His plans?
The footpath of our righteousness as believers is simply under our noses.
In 1 Corinthians, Paul says that the knowledge inside us that produces pride and hurts others is not true knowledge. There is a second type that contrasts with the first. Paul's answer to this imitation knowledge—is 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆.
It is love.
Learning generously about God and the "good" understanding He entrusts us turns into a great love for Him, and this is only possible because of how much God intimately knows us.
God wants our relationship with Him to be like that of close friends with no secrets. That person only you have that makes your life bearable. And also, instead of knowledge to gain an advantage over others, we all have it in us sometimes. God wants us to search for Him as we would "our person." Our hearts take pleasure in this profound companionship, and you 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙨𝙖𝙮, 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚, 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙪𝙥, and 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩. It's a life-changing experience to grow closer to Jesus just like that!
The other night, I decided not to read or study. I needed to rest my mind because work had been a bit trying. I decided to watch a movie. My husband fell fast asleep, and I watched a film that reflected many thoughts about facts in the world. It was heartbreaking and, at last hope-filled. I didn't know it was quite like this when I began to watch, but I was planted after the first five minutes. I had such a rustle as this story spoke loudly on many levels.
Two fundamental topics freed new light in my heart.
1. Addiction to "anything" starts from our hearts attempting to find peace, contentment, and recovery from a wrecked heart. At times at any moment, we do what we think will take the pain away. Our unkempt knowledge. Most times, disclosing with sin: idols, legalism, drugs, whatever it may be, nothing will defeat it in the long run. It is the knowledge we learn to rely on instead of Who to trust and to depend on.
2. Our One True God will repeatedly have His heart broken for and from you and me. His heart operates with the purity of love and compassion, and when He can not do anything about the peace and gladness that we 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 from Him, it is because we are not allowing Him to deliver it. The pure Glory of His Name and Word will never cease to restore. Do not remove Him from your story. God has given us His beloved Son, as stated in John 3:16. He was sent to us."
God gave us the most beloved friend in His Son, sent perfectly to earth to do what we couldn't do. Our heavenly Father is saving us by the Grace of His Son to sustain our faith for His Glory.
I dearly love this excerpt from Dr. David Jeremiah:
“Salvation must be experienced. The Bible has to saturate our personalities. The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities. Head knowledge without heart knowledge is worse than useless; but when head and heart join forces, it changes our lives forever.”
Our God. Being faithful to his covenant (see below for a more in-depth look at the New Covenant), I urge you to meditate on it. It is astounding how God's promises are fulfilled through the Holy Spirit. We serve from the heart of knowledge that Jesus has died for us, setting us free from sin and the law! "He will guide them in the way they should choose" - Psalm 25:14. This verse speaks about the benefits of friendship with the Lord for those who have reverence and awe in His Name. It emphasizes that He will lead and direct us toward the right path—no matter our doubts and inconsistencies. Stay near, stay very near with a heart for Him first.
In His love,
Kristie
Psalm 25:14 “The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.”
1 Corinthians 8:3 “But if anyone loves God, he is known by him.”
Proverbs 2:6 “For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
The New Covenant was prophesized by Moses, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel.
31 “The day is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. 32 This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,” says the Lord.
33 “But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days,” says the Lord. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. Jeremiah 31:31-33
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. Ezekiel 36:26-27
The Old Covenant was written in stone, but the New Covenant is written on our hearts in our faith in Christ.
While Moses, through whom God established the Old Covenant, was in anticipation of the New Covenant. In Deuteronomy 29:4, he said, "But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear." In knowing that Israel would fail, he saw the time of restoration:
30 When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations,2 and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today,3 then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes[a] and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.4 Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back.5 He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors.6 The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. Deuteronomy 30:1-6
It's important for us Gentiles to recognize our honor in sharing in Christ's inheritance and sustaining a close relationship with God. Christ is a crucial mediator for a new covenant that allows us to do so.
"And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood." Luke 22:20
"For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant." Hebrews 9:15
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