Head and Heart.

Phyiscally speaking we need heads and hearts in order to have life. Our brains send messages to our heart thousands of times a day in order to keep us breathing and moving. It appears that when God created the human body He made the head and heart connected in order for us to stay alive. (I know this is a lot more complex than this but Science has never been my strong point)

So, if God intentionally created the connection between our heads and our hearts in order for us to stay alive, then it must be important!

                                                                  

Is this connection important to every aspect of our being? Emotional and Spiritual etc?

Something I have been thinking a lot about recently is this fact that my head is connected to my heart, and not so much in a biological sense but rather a spiritual sense.

A question that has ran through my head for several weeks now is...

If my head and heart aren't connected spiritually then couldn't this lead to a case of spiritual heart failure?

I have come to realise over the past year that I know a lot about God and Jesus. I know some facts, memorised some verses, know some theological quotes but I still don't live fully the way God has called me to. My life is supposed to be a fragrant offering to the Lord and more often than not it is far from it. But I have been finding this journey exciting. I've began to dream about what it would be like if I asked and persistantly prayed that God would help me to transfer what I believe to be true in my head, into my heart. Because it is only once I have believed truth in my heart that my life will become even more radical.

What if I believed deep down in my heart that the same power that conquered the grave lives in me?

Would I take (more) risks on a daily basis?

Would I be daring enough to ask someone if I could pray with them?

Over this past week (Sun-Sun) this reading from Matthew 6 has been brought to my attention 4 times. So I'm guessing its pretty important. Here Jesus is teaching about worrying and being anixous. I have been challenged a lot this week to deeply consider the reasons why I worry and the reasons why it is not ok for me to worry. It has to be said that I'm only human and I guess worry will always be a part of my life. But if I allowed God to work in my heart so that I wouldn't just know that God will take care of my every need but I would genuinely and profoundly believe that He will.

That would drasticly transform my everyday life. My faith would become more alive and passionate- - and ultimately God centred (yes that's right often faith isn't God centred even though it was God who created it and its about Him!)

There are thousands of truths that I am not even yet aware of about God. It excites me that God is mysterious, and that I will never know everything about Him. But my prayer and hearts desire is that what He does reveal to me will not just be held as knowledge in my head but that God will help me to let those truths take root in my heart.  The only way I know how to prevent spiritual heart failure at the moment is to keep a balance between knowledge and relationship. I desire to read scripture, books, listen to music, journal but I also need to take the time aside from these things to be with God.

To be still and ask Him to: