Heart to Heart
We have a saying about people who play music without being able to read music… we call it “playing by heart.”
I like that phrase. It intimates that music is more than just notes on a page, or mindless muzak to make people spend more in a grocery store, or to keep us from having to talk to one another (heaven forbid!) in an otherwise quiet elevator.
I have always believed that there was more to music than meets the ear. I play “by heart”.
More than that, I want to live by heart.
Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” When the apostle Peter correctly answered the question “Who do you say that I am”, Jesus said: “Blessed are you for flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father did…”
Man is a triune being: Spirit (the essence or essential nature of man- created in God’s own image), Soul (the seat of the emotions, mind and will), and body (the geographical and physical expression- the “housing” as it were).
Most education systems, the media, entertainment, and economic systems of the world focus on the body and the soul (what Watchman Nee calls the “Outer Man”), to the exclusion of the part of us that connects us with God, our spirit… (the “inner man.”)
How do we begin to know the “Unknowable”?
We live by every word that comes from God… we live by heart, by revelation, not just information.
Though faith is mysterious and intangible, it is not untethered to reality. (A wild mustang running with the wind through the Black Hills still needs food, water and shelter.) Though the Kingdom of God is invisible, one can see the effects of the Kingdom- just as we can see a tree blown by the wind without ever seeing the wind itself.
Jesus said “the Kingdom of God comes not by observation- behold the Kingdom of God is within you!”
There is a firm foundation for faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That foundation is scripture, the Bible, the Word of God- not only an historical record and full of poetry and law, but an actual “living” book that reveals Who God is.
Living faith worships God with more than the mind- some worship the Book of the Lord more than the Lord of the Book and are afraid to have any question unanswered- even if an answer is manufactured instead of really true.
God lives “by heart”, He wants a heart-to-heart relationship with you and me. It’s an adventure, it’s scary and exciting, that kind of a relationship is real life!
God has called us into an eternal adventure of intimacy with Christ!
Thanks for reading,
Godrest and Godspeed,
David Baroni