Believe with Your Heart

The Biblical phrase – believe with your heart. I’ve read this line over and over throughout my life, but recently turned to it as a source of peace and assurance.

We cannot really control the mind all of the time. Sometimes it takes us far off the reservation, other times it takes us next door. But it wanders and searches far and near. You might even call it lost on occasion.

But we are not all mind. Our hearts hold the most precious parts of us. Our fears and insecurities, our hopes and dreams. They don’t take convincing – they just are. They reflect our inner selves like crystal prisms.

When we speak, our words mostly flow from our mind – explaining what we want to believe, telling how we’d prefer to feel. It’s not always about who we are, but who we think we might be or want to be. Guys, it’s complicated.

Yet when the heart speaks, no one hears but everyone sees. Sometimes there is a lag. But, when we act, we are opening a window into our soul – we will inevitably reveal our true, unmasked character regardless of what we say.

We (on net) behave according to who we truly are.

We’re told to believe in our hearts. To want what is right, not to just think it. To act according to promises that sometimes we don’t believe.

When you love someone, you care for them. What hurts them, breaks you. What concerns you, devastates them. The other’s wellbeing is your primary goal. You know what they need because your heart is connected to theirs. There’s not always understanding, but almost always feeling.

A mind can generate words, thoughts, and many things, but it cannot love. Only a heart can do that.

Sometimes I think to believe what is right seems as simple as to act out of love – to treasure one another’s heart.

Jesus loved on earth. He served, he healed, he helped. His heart believed in humanity through continual acts of service. And his heart is what bled out on a cross.

So believe with our heart… I think this means to walk out of love when we don’t know what to think. To walk through life holding the most precious parts of one another dear. To guard each other from pain, to mend the cracks of wear and tare. To love deeply even when it doesn’t make sense.

I think this phrase is encouraging to me because I am a person who often does not know what to think.