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The HEART of you

Posted on Aug 03, 2010

Imagine this. Each night before we go to bed we disassemble each organ of our body, laying them aside to rest individually, until all that is left is a shell of who we are. We rest. We wake up in the morning and reassemble each organ back into their sockets and get on with our day.

If our bodies were programmed to function this way, I wonder what organ we would give priority to. Would it be our lungs, so we can take our first and last breath for the day? Would it be our eyes so we could behold the face of a dear one as soon as we wake up and just before we go to bed? If you have caught onto this ridiculously impossible train of thought, I can almost see you shaking your head in disagreement to both options! Would you start with your heart instead, so it could start pumping the essential life-force that is elemental to our survival and the functioning of each of our organs and be the last organ to shut down for the night?

Now picture this. Rushed and harried from a busy day, tired from all the umpteen things one has to do throughout the day, we fall into bed, mumble a prayer of thanks and apology and drift off into sleep. We jump out of bed at the sound of an alarm that alerts us to all the million things we have to do today. We mumble a prayer, read a chapter in the Bible, distracted by all the things floating in and out of our conscious as we hesitantly come awake. We get on with our day. "God understands how busy I am" we think.

What do we plug into first thing in the morning? Where is our heart as we switch off at the end of a busy day? What is our heart in all of this? Where is our heart in all of this? What is the life-force that pumps all the essential nutrients that our soul needs to stay vibrantly alive?

Psalms 27:8 – "My Heart says of you "Seek His face!" Your face, Lord, I will seek."
Psalm 119:11 – "I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you."
Psalm 101:2 – "I will be careful to lead a blameless life— when will you come to me? I will walk in my house with blameless heart.
Psalm 51:10 – "Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me."
Psalm 73:26 – "My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."
Psalms 28:7 – "The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song."
Psalm 37:4 – "Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart."

May God be the beginning and end of our days and nights. May our hearts constantly seek Him and find Him. May His everlasting love fill the core of our hearts thereby defining who we are and bless our relationships. May our hearts be intricately tied in with God's glorious heart.

May God be the HEART of you.

Hana Isaac, EA/Communications NNZC
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