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Where does Failure lead us? The Ancient Path Our Hearts Over the last few years God has brought me through this journey of mine to the place that I believe is the most important place in our Christian walk. It is a return to the ancient path, the path of the heart. This place we call the heart is not just the beating muscle inside of us. Or as the Greeks say where our emotions are. Gary Barkalow in his new book Its your call says it this way: “There’s also the source of your truest, God –created desires that clearly reveals your glory and the source is your heart. I need to clarify what I mean by heart. I am not referring to the modern understanding of feelings as in the head(thinking) and the heart (feeling) that is a Greek view of the heart, which is how most of us were educated and thus how we interpreted the word. I am referring instead to the Hebrew understanding of the word as used in Scripture: the truest, deepest part of you, your soul. “ It is the center or core of our whole being. It is the deepest part of us. We find in the Hebrew language the heart is defined as the center or core of our being. The KJV Bible uses the word heart 823 times. One of the words in Hebrew for the heart is: bl or leb (labe) which is defined “as the feelings, the will and even the intellect, likewise for the centre of anything” Another Hebrew word for heart is “bbl” or “lebab” (lay-bawb’) which means “the most interior organ, and it also stands for courage.” In the KJV if you look at the words love, faith and hope in comparison to the word heart, love is used 286 times, faith 234 times, hope 129 times. Just from looking at the amount of times the heart is mentioned we can see that God is trying to show us what is most important to him. It is the heart where God deals with us and heals and restores us. God has chosen the heart as the place where he reveals to us the life we need on this journey we are walking. Romans Chapter 10 verses 8-10 “But what does it say? The word is near you it is in your mouth and in your heart, that is the word of faith we are proclaiming, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with the heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved” As we see it is very significant for God when he is speaking to us about our hearts. For it is with the heart we believe and are justified. I hope you do not miss what is said here. Our hearts are so very important at every stage of our journey. We begin with the heart and our journey will continue through our hearts. As we venture through our journey this is where we must begin. We must begin with the heart. For those of us men this is the hardest part for us to grasp and hold on to. We as men are always looking at what we can do to solve our problems or failures. What can I do for God. What can I do to solve this issue. We run full ahead to fix whatever we think is wrong. We look at the three, seven or ten steps to complete the task. There are so many how to books we would not be able to count them. We has men are defined many times by what is outside of us. How we are doing at work and how are families are doing. Men are seen most by what we have accomplished in this world, and even by our service to God. These are not all necessarily bad things. Though I believe though that God is after much more than just our work, or our service to him. He is after something much more important to him, our hearts. In 2 Corinthians Chapter 4 the Apostle Paul says this: "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." It is vital for us to fix our eyes on what is unseen. Through the eyes of our hearts is how we see the unseen. What is God trying to show you today through the eyes of your heart? |
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