April 23, 2016 THE MEDITATION OF THE HEART
Psalm 19:14: “May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.”
Proverbs 4:23: “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the well spring of life.”
These verses express the importance of what kind of fruit our heart is producing and also serve as a warning and an admonition to us to watch over our heart. What our heart meditates on is indicative of the health of our heart because what we value most, is what we meditate on. If we are spiritually healthy and we have a desire to know and follow God, we will find ourselves thinking about and being amazed by the greatness of God and we will have a sense of wonder about the things we don’t yet fully understand about God. This is not to say that we will spend every wakening moment thinking about God because we must think about the task at hand and give attention to it; however, we will find our heart drifting to the things of God when our heart belongs to Him. We can make a choice to think about a certain thing or subject, but at times our minds to go into what I call the “auto-pilot” mode and the thoughts we have during this time say a lot about where I heart is focused. When discussing the mind, and the need for us to take dominion over our mind, I am reminded about what Peter Parris said: “We need to talk to ourselves more than we listen to ourselves.”-how true. God has provided a way for our minds to produce good fruit on a consistence basis, and He has done so not by renovating our mind, but by giving us new minds. If we are given a new vehicle, we need to read the instruction manuel, become familiar with all the features, and maintain the vehicle if we are to get the best use out of the vehicle. So it is with the new mind that we have been given; we learn about the new mind and how it operates by reading and meditating on scripture, by listening to the Spirit within, and by choosing to obey the voice of the Lord. It is difficult to make a clear distinction between the heart and the mind but basically, out of the heart flow the issues of life (Proverbs 4:2) and “as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” (Proverbs 23:7). We influence our heart by what we think about and by what we meditate on; that is how we “manage” our heart. With our mind we read the scriptures to find truth, and as the Holy Spirit reveals truth to us, our heart is impacted. As a believer, God has gifted us with wonderful new minds and He has given us new hearts; now let us make the choice to walk in our newness. Let our thoughts and our words proceed from the new person that God has made us to be-and He will be pleased.
Ezekiel 36:26: “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in us; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”
Blessings,
Buddy
Psalm 19:14: “May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.”
Proverbs 4:23: “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the well spring of life.”
These verses express the importance of what kind of fruit our heart is producing and also serve as a warning and an admonition to us to watch over our heart. What our heart meditates on is indicative of the health of our heart because what we value most, is what we meditate on. If we are spiritually healthy and we have a desire to know and follow God, we will find ourselves thinking about and being amazed by the greatness of God and we will have a sense of wonder about the things we don’t yet fully understand about God. This is not to say that we will spend every wakening moment thinking about God because we must think about the task at hand and give attention to it; however, we will find our heart drifting to the things of God when our heart belongs to Him. We can make a choice to think about a certain thing or subject, but at times our minds to go into what I call the “auto-pilot” mode and the thoughts we have during this time say a lot about where I heart is focused. When discussing the mind, and the need for us to take dominion over our mind, I am reminded about what Peter Parris said: “We need to talk to ourselves more than we listen to ourselves.”-how true. God has provided a way for our minds to produce good fruit on a consistence basis, and He has done so not by renovating our mind, but by giving us new minds. If we are given a new vehicle, we need to read the instruction manuel, become familiar with all the features, and maintain the vehicle if we are to get the best use out of the vehicle. So it is with the new mind that we have been given; we learn about the new mind and how it operates by reading and meditating on scripture, by listening to the Spirit within, and by choosing to obey the voice of the Lord. It is difficult to make a clear distinction between the heart and the mind but basically, out of the heart flow the issues of life (Proverbs 4:2) and “as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” (Proverbs 23:7). We influence our heart by what we think about and by what we meditate on; that is how we “manage” our heart. With our mind we read the scriptures to find truth, and as the Holy Spirit reveals truth to us, our heart is impacted. As a believer, God has gifted us with wonderful new minds and He has given us new hearts; now let us make the choice to walk in our newness. Let our thoughts and our words proceed from the new person that God has made us to be-and He will be pleased.
Ezekiel 36:26: “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in us; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”
Blessings,
Buddy
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