I heard a pastor once say that “your heart will take you places that your head can not go”.

Nothing could be more true.  And nothing could be more eternally important.

Jeremiah warned us about how the heart can deceive us:

Jeremiah 17 9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.  Who can understand it?

Solomon encouraged us to guard our heart:

Proverbs 4 23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

Solomon also encouraged us to give all of our heart to the Lord:

Proverbs 3  3 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;

And Ezekiel quoted God, who told him that we would have a new heart—that God could actually replace our calloused heart with one that could love.

Ezekiel 36 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

And in His ministry, Jesus told us that whatever we chose to treasure, that our heart would follow us to it.

Matthew 6 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Everyone who has used the terms “He showed heart”, “she loves him with all her heart”, or “the team played with a lot of heart” knows that there is more to this idea of heart than just the organ that pumps blood through our body.  It transcends how fast we are or how smart we are or how much time we have left to live.  Heart shows up in marriages and in teams.  It shows up in compassion and it shows up in our faith.  It reveals itself in our actions and in our financial transactions.

And the Bible is clear about this:  God WANTS our hearts.  He wants our hearts because when they belong to Him, they can not deceive, they can not be hardened, and love can flow from them in abundance.  He wants to give us a heart of flesh—a heart that beats for Him in all of His glory.  And He wants us to store up treasures in heaven and to have our hearts long for heaven.

God doesn’t want our knowledge or our good deeds.  He doesn’t want our resumes or our money or our fame.  He wants our HEARTS.  He wants us to pursue Him and get filled by His love so that we can give it away to others.

Gods’ love inside of us gives us purpose and power and impact.

If God is in our heart, we have a chance to make an incredible difference inside of OURSELVES AND OTHERS.

No one understood this more than Paul.

His vicious contempt for the rising of Christ followers was expressed in His heart.  He wanted to crush them and kill them and humiliate them.  It became an obsession.

But God captured His heart on a journey into Syria.

And He changed Paul’s heart in such a radical way that Paul changed his life in the craziest of ways.

And in His new journey he wrote this:

Ephesians 3 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Fill your heart with God.  Fill it so that you know that you know—so that your love surpasses all the science and knowledge and logic.  Because when your heart is full of God, “your heart will take you places that your head can not go”.

Go to those places.  God is there.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J