Heartwork (under construction)

We shape our heart and our heart shapes us.  We shape our heart by what we feed it, what we put into it, what we put in front of it.  Our heart shapes us by producing the thoughts, understandings, emotions, desires, values and choices that shape our lives and who we are.

Our heart is the software and operating system of our lives.  Inputs are processed by the heart to produce our outputs (thoughts, understandings, emotions, desires, values and choices).  If the software becomes corrupted, then the output is corrupted.  "If your eye (your perception - a function of the heart) is bad, then your whole body is full of darkness." Mt 6.

The heart is the fishbowl in which we live and move and have our being. The heart produces the internal environment in which we live.  Our experience of living consists of "duvects" (Desires, understandings, values, emotions, choices, and thoughts).  The heart produces the water in which we live and swim - "the springs of life."

The heart is the control center of the person.  We live near a nuclear power plant.  The control center is highly protected because an enemy can wreak havoc and destroy the facility.  "Watch over your heart with all diligence..."

Satan, the father of lies, deceives us by making what is good seem bad and what is bad seem good.  He has swapped the buttons on a vending machine so that we push the Dr. Pepper button, and a can of sewage pours into our fishbowl.  But it says Dr. Pepper so we keep pressing it, even though it keeps pouring sewage into the bowl.  But it's the sewage button (the Cross) that has the good stuff in it.  Few are those who discover this truth, and it has to be rediscovered continually.  The Bible tells us which buttons that we must push - it was written for us in our fallen, mislabelled world.

The heart can lead the mighty to ruin.  David, Solomon, Mark Sandford, Bill Clinton are all examples of this.

Billions of dollars are spent on advertising each year to win hearts.

Proverbs 4:23 says to watch over, keep, guard our hearts.  We only watch over: 1) that which has value and someone might steal. 2) that which has value and might wander off 3) that which has value and might be damaged or harmed. No one watches over their garbage.

It is useless to watch over an unregenerate heart.  An unregenerate heart loves sin.  Working with an unregenerate heart is like cleaning up a pig - it will always go back to wallow in the mud and filth that it loves.

Only Jesus can give a new heart.

Examples the heart in action: Duvects...