The most beautiful place for our hearts to be is with Him - with Jesus - leaving our hearts in His care, healing, strengthening, and purifyling. He loves and knows us perfectly. Then from that place - of our hearts being with Him - we can love and give to others the way that will benefit their hearts, our own hearts, and point back to Jesus for His glory.
And then those times that we are hurt, disappointed - maybe because we didn't get back what we expected or what we wanted. We can then give our hearts to Him - to heal, fill and strengthen again. Being open to His loving voice and obedient when He asks us to forgive, let go, trust, love, move forward, give and receive more. If our hearts are truly with Him - then He can flow through us and release our hearts to love the way He wants us to and all the while receiving His love, life, wisdom, and care back into our hearts.
"Guard your heart, above everything else, for the source of your life flows from it." Proverbs 4:23. This verse means so much more to me now - after a deeper revelation - than what I've learned before... for I was once taught to guard my heart out of fear of getting hurt, or in order make sure I have certain walls up to protect and self-preserve. Yet, I don't think that's what Solomon meant when he wrote this in Proverbs. I think it's more about the wisdom we need in order to know what and who to let in to our hearts and how to give and receive. Yes, to make sure we don't harbor bitterness, unforgiveness, anger, strife, lust, greed, or allow our hearts to participate in evil.
I think about a guard at the gates of a palace and what they do to guard the entrance. Pictures of Buckingham Palace come to mind. The gate is opened with wisdom not to everyone or everything ... but once the people are allowed to enter the palace and experience what is inside - they hopefully leave better than when they first entered. That's what I want my heart to be for others... yes, using wisdom to allow who to come into my heart but all the while trusting my heart fully to the Lord for His care... and then as each person leaves the experience(s) we have shared together - my prayer is that they will feel better, stronger, refreshed, encounter Christ in me and be given more life than when they first entered.
Our hearts are a place where we can allow life to flow from - first life from God into us and then onto others.
Writing more on this later... for sure.
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