This Week |
#42 (6-20-04)
The Heart
Have you ever really listened to a
human heart? I’ve heard them with my ear pressed close, through a
stethoscope, on a fetal monitor, amplified through speakers in surgery,
etc. (I worked as a Para-Medic for a while in the dark, distant past), and
the heart is an amazing piece of work. I was listening to one the other
day, and what I heard disturbed me. When disturbed, it’s time to reach for
the phone and call the Physician.
I’ve also listened to “heartfelt”
conversation, “confessions” of the heart, and people everywhere “speaking”
from their heart, “following” their heart, and “giving” their heart away.
In Jeremiah 17:9 we hear God speak about
the heart. Obviously He is not talking about our physical heart that moves
our blood throughout our bodies, but rather our innermost being, the very
“heart” of whom we are. One really has to go back to verse five (5) of
that chapter to get a clear understanding for verse nine (9). We must know
and understand that we cannot trust in our flesh, our self, our strength,
depart from the Truth, and slip away from our Savior and Lord. When we
abandon the direction of the Father in our lives, and allow our fleshly
nature to control what we say, what we do, where we go, and how we live,
we discover the deceitful nature and desperate wickedness of our way as
opposed to His.
God is in the process of a daily
“listening” to our heart. He is searching our operation, testing our
thinking, weighing our actions, and rendering His judgments for our works.
Just as surely as I would urge you to
call your physician should your physical heart become abnormal in its
operation, so I urge you to examine your innermost being and determine
what is going on there. The Scripture clearly tells us that God will “give
to every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings”(vs.
10). Listen to your heart! What does it say? Is it telling you to “trust
in the Lord and hope in the Lord” (vs. 7)? That will happen only when your
have surrendered your whole heart to the Father. You can do that. If you
don’t know how, call me. I can tell you!
©Weaver 2004
© Weaver 2004