How Healthy is Your Heart?

I also like Psalm 86:11, "Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; unite my heart to fear You name."

In the O.T. unity was spoken of in a sense of togetherness of persons (Gen. 13:6), fellowship (Judges 19:6) and praise (Psalm 34:3). In the N.T. the "word bespeaks the unity of faith that binds together the people of God (Ephesians 4:13). What I get out of this verse is that our hearts need to be united with the Lord's. We need to make sure our heart beat beats to the same rhythm of His. And that we, as Believers, need to be united. "and I (God) will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me always, for their own good and for the good of their children after them." Jeremiah 33:29. If we're not united it could cause eternal damages not only to ourselves but also to the generations to come. Heart attacks can result from a heart that isn't beating right from sometimes an unhealthy lifestyle. I think the same thing applies to our spiritual hearts. When something unhealthy enters our spiritual bodies and is allowed to remain, we weaken our spiritual hearts and cause disease to damage it. It therefore doesn't work as God intended it too.

I am reminded about how unborn babies can hear their mother's heartbeat. Their ears must be filled with that constant comforting sound. As we know they also hear what's going on outside of the womb but it must be muffled and not as loud as mom's heartbeat. I've seen on TV how they have a machine that is suppose to recreate that heartbeat sound to give newborns a sense of security they lost once they were born. Therefore, in turn, it'll help them fall asleep (ah, a mother's dream!). We need to be like infants and have our ears filled with the sound of God's heartbeat. To now allow Satan to fill our ears up with meaningless things so we can't hear it. If we don't hear it we become detached from God and that leads to disunity amongst ourselves. The exact place Satan wants us to be. I pray that we may never loose the sound of our Lord's heart beat!

Krista Jones