Give God the Blueprint to Your Heart.
According to Dictionary.com the heart is defined as a hollow, pump like organ of blood
circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located
in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers…
In metaphorical terms, we can define the term “heart” as that
part of the human existence where beliefs, memories, feelings, dreams, and life
experiences converge into a physical/spiritual/emotional phenomenon that
affects the way we interact and react to the rest of the world. There is no
scientific evidence that connects the heart as a body organ to emotions.
However, we all experience a physical sensation in our heart when our emotions
are shaken up in either a good way, (i.e. falling in love, being promoted,
winning the lottery) or not so great, (losing a loved one, being fired, or going
broke.) When we are rocked emotionally, our hearts vibrate, our breathing
quickens, our souls ache and the blood (pumped by our heart) rushes to our
brain, busting open the floodgates of thoughts, visions, fears, cheers and other
such mayhem.
My heart is breaking… have you no heart?... She has a stone cold
heart… My heart got out to you… I just don’t have the heart to go on… IYyou…
While our human heart has four chambers, our “heart” – that place where we store our core
beliefs – has many rooms. Each room contains a conviction derived from an interpretation
of a life event, which in turn feeds our self-esteem and influences our outward
behaviour. From moment to moment, as we encounter external stimuli, one room or
another of our “heart” is breached, and the floodgate of memories, feelings and
beliefs bust open into either a pleasurable or a painful moment. We, the
unwitting participants of this phenomenon, have to ride out the physical and
emotional sensations, and depending on the positive or negative impact, will go
to great lengths to prolong or bring about an immediate end to the experience.
“Heart” is where our love lives; not our minds. When we
send valentines, they are heart-shaped, not brain-shaped. Our heart goes all
aflutter and seems to swell with that warm, wonderfully swooshy, smooshy sensation
that makes the rest of our body go on full alert, pupils dilating, hair
standing up and skin tingling. We draw hearts on our note pads, and sing smarmy
love songs that also reference the “heart”.
“Heart” is where our pain lives. When life in general or a
person in particular does us wrong, we claim to have a broken heart. If someone
hurts our feelings, we don’t cover our ears to protect ourselves from the pain;
instead, we press our hands over our heart in an effort to contain the hemorrhage
of hurt, because the pain is coming from a room in our heart where a locked
door has been kicked open and our pain exposed.
“Heart” is where we store core beliefs – those foundational
constructs that guide our behaviours, influence our choices, and hopefully
cause us to be a blessing to our fellow human beings. “I believe with all my heart…”. “She
puts her heart in to everything she does…”. This being the case, it would
do our hearts good to air out those rooms once in a while, and perhaps toss out
some trash, especially when we discover that a core-belief no longer holds
true. Problem is, we innately hoard these ideals because they appear to define
us, and if our belief system is shaken to the core, then we are forced to
question everything we ever believed to be true. This kind of inventory cannot
be undertaken alone.
Therefore my friends, I am suggesting that we all handover
the blueprint of our heart to God, allowing Him to enter each room, and shine
His light into those that contain the pain, anger, misunderstanding and
negative self-concepts that so limit our lives. He can reveal the truth behind
each door, and gently help us face that for the last time and finally put the
junk that no longer serves us out on the curb. Garbage in…garbage out.
Our glorious God will not stop at clearing out the
clutter; He will replace that mess with the truth – a magnificent new vision of
who you really are, a new understanding of how He has masterfully designed you to
make a positive impact on planet earth and all its inhabitants.
Give God the blueprint to your heart and allow Him to
create a wide-open space for His Holy Spirit to reside. Life will get less
complicated, peace will seep into every cell of your body, and no matter what
life brings you, His grace will be sufficient to see your through.
I Y U
It’s me... Jan
