Our heart, our heart...
One of the problems of being human in linear time is we have to hold a multitude of information in our mind at the same time. Or we think we do. Or, it seems like we have to. I mean, are we supposed to just forget all the great insights and breakthroughs of understanding we get in our general development? Learn it today, forget it tomorrow? But we can't hold such things in our mind.
I think they have to go to our heart. When they reside there they change us on their own.
We may not remember why we are no longer upset about a certain thing. Prior at some time we came into understanding of the thing. When you understand something you tend to no longer be disagreeable regarding it. That doesn't mean you agree with it or like it, but just that you are no longer mechanically disagreeable about it.
I think these types of insights and understandings have to go to our heart and reside there.
When we then think about our development as human beings or as Christians we can then sort of think of our heart. Our heart in the biblical sense. All that we are. All that God sees in us.
We can think of our heart and ask is my heart OK? Am I carrying a lot of anger about things? Or do I understand those things. Based on biblical truth. Ultimately.
Think of our heart as a mountain pool. It can be clear, or it can be all roiled up with the sediment at the bottom making the water dark and chaotic. If it's clear with the sunlight bouncing off it we are in a good state. We can kind of feel that. We can feel the darkness and chaos too when it's there.
Over all, though, God sees the state of our mountain pool in its average state. Do we have a heart acceptable to God? He lets us know His standards. He's had them written down and put in a Book.
We can't fake our heart. Not to God. To be in His Kingdom we have to have a true heart based on God's standards of truth. We have to value what God values, based on his Book. There's no faking our way into the Kingdom of God.
So we can sit back and take inventory and sort of feel how are heart is. A heart for God or a heart for the world...or a heart for the Devil?
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When did I start writing like a devotions yearbook?
"I think they have to go to our heart."
I think that you are right because that's where part of higher understanding comes from, like higher truth and real love. It resides in our higher emotional parts, or even higher.
"When you understand something you tend to no longer be disagreeable regarding it."
Exactly, that's the new understanding given to us from above. The great reconciler of the hellish dualities we struggle with throughout most of our lives is wrapped up in God's love. God's love allows us to see that everything is exactly as it should be, there is no injustice, everything is weighed exactly and perfectly in balance. When you see instances of that, you see pure objective truth - as God sees it all (big statement), always.
(It's not easy to write about these things and sound normal and sane)
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But sin and evil isn't exactly as it should be. God said all was good, but that was before the fall. Having understanding of it all, though, means not being in its power regarding identification. Also, not being in a continual state of despairing confusion regarding something. Understanding brings light that can only be seen in that mountain pool that is our heart when it's clear...
That’s true. Our inner and outer worlds are in complete balance though. When seen with a clear heart everything is in complete balance and harmony.
When we do evil things our hearts harden, we are held to account by the world or our own conscience, people hate us, we get sick etc. Everything we do has an equal and opposite reaction one balancing out the other.
If you see this without identifying with it then you have a certain amount of freedom from it. God’s love is part of that freedom.
Don't know if this is relevant, but my sister fell and broke a coffee mug, and it cut her left thumb badly. Emergency room, stitches.
So on a total whim I googled symbology of left hand thumb wound, and lo and behold a website came up on the symbology of finger wounds.
Under left thumb wound it said upsetting thoughts about family have been in the mind of the person.
It so happens that she and I had been texting, and the subject was her being upset that the family wouldn't talk to her, she was shut out, etc., etc.
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