The heart is that which is central to man. Nearly all the references to the heart in the Old and New Testament refer to some aspect of human personality. The heart has a much broader meaning than it does to the modern mind. All emotions are experienced by the heart because heart is the inner self that thinks, feels and decides: love and hate; joy and sorrow; peace and bitterness; courage and fear.

He made his people fertile
and more vigorous than their oppressors'
whose hearts he then disposed to hatred of his people
and double-dealing with his servants. - Psalms 105:24-25 -

You have been obedient to the truth and purified your souls until you can love your brothers, in sincerity; let your love for each other be real and from the heart. - 1Peter 1:22 -

I denied my eyes nothing they desired, refused my heart no pleasure, a heart that found all my hard work a pleasure; such was the return I got for all my efforts. - Eccl. 2:10 -

Do not let your hearts be troubled.
Trust in God still and trust in me. - John 14:1 -

They will shave their heads for you,
and put sackcloth round their waists.
They will raise a bitter dirge over you,
in their despair. - Ezekiel 27:31 -

And may the peace of Christ reign in your hearts because it is for this that you were called together as parts of one body. Always be thankful. - Col. 3:15 -

The thinking processes of man are said to be carried out by the heart. This intellectual activity corresponds to what would be called mind in English. Thus, the heart may think, understand, imagine, remember, be wise and speak to itself. Decision making is also carried out by the heart; Purpose - Acts 11:23 - Intention - Heb. 4:12 - Will - Eph. 6:6 - are all activities of the heart.

Heart often means someone's true character or personality. Purity or Evil - Jer. 3:17; Matt. 5:8 - Sincerity or Hardness - Ex. 4:21; Col. 3:32 - Maturity or Rebelliousness - Psalms 101:2; Jer. 5:23 - all these describe the heart or true character of individuals. God knows the heart of each person. - Sam. 16:7 - Since a person speaks and acts from his heart, he is to guard it well.

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and it is these that make a man unclean. For from the heart come evil intentions: murder, adultery, fornication, theft, perjury, slander. These are the things that make a man unclean. - Matt. 15:18-19 -

The most important duty of man is to love God with the whole heart. - Matt. 22:37 - With the heart man believes in Christ and so experiences both love from God and the presence of Christ in his heart.

So far then we have seen that, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by faith we are indeed righteous and at peace with God since it is by faith and through Jesus that we have entered this stage of grace in which we can boast about looking forward to God's glory. But this is not all that we can boast about; we can boast about our sufferings. These sufferings bring patience, as we know and patience brings perseverance, and perseverance brings hope, and this hope is not deceptive because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us. - Romans 5:1-5; 10:8-10 -

Out of his infinite glory, may he give you the power through his Spirit for your hidden self to grow strong, so that Christ may live in your hearts through faith, and then, planted in love and built on love, you will with all the saints have strength to grasp the breadth and length, the height and the depth; until knowing the love of Christ, which is beyond all knowledge, you are filled with the utter fullness of God. - Eph. 3:16-19 -

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -