Heart Knowledge part 3
This is what the heart knows: Love. The heart knows how to love, and the heart knows how to respond to love. And here's a key for you: You respond to love by loving. Receiving and releasing the love of God. Letting God love you, and loving Him back by loving others. That's what the heart knows. And that's ALL the heart knows. That's why sometimes when things "make sense" to the brain, they still don't feel right. Because, to quote a favorite song of mine, "What'cha got if you ain't got love? The kind that you just want to give away?" Which, by the way, is what love is. Love is giving. Its so good that you CAN'T keep it to yourself. And when you know what you've got, you can stop trying to get, well, anything. Because love is the be-all end-all. Love is the desire of the heart. Again--love is what the heart knows. And love is ALL that the heart knows. So when we add this to what we were talking about yesterday--how the heart wants what it wants, and what it wants is to give--then we start to see that it really is all about love. And we start to understand how the knowledge of Christ passes knowledge. We can know something (or think we know something) but then love enters the picture and blows everything else out of the water. When I met my fiance Amanda... the love I felt for her (and feel for her) was so much more than anything I had ever felt. It was real. It was true. Everything I thought I knew paled in comparision. Almost like, "If loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right." Like, set everything else on fire because THIS is what it's all about. And the coolest part is, when you experience that real love... you understand that it can't BE wrong. It HAS to be right. Because love is the truth. And truth is higher than fact. The fact of the matter may be that it looks dark and dim. But the truth of the matter is that the light of the world shines on, and in, and through you! So we don't have to worry about how things look. We can walk by faith and not by sight. We can stop judging things by appearance and we can start to see things for what they really are. Looking INTO things--specifically people--instead of looking AT them. Surface stuff doesn't tell the whole story. Its what's deep inside that really matters. Your actions don't define you. Your inner man, Spirit man, hidden man of the heart, JESUS, true identity defines you. And when you know who you really are you WILL be who you really are. Naturally. Because what's inside--what you believe is inside--WILL come out. It has to. What you do flows from what you believe. So if you know and believe the love of God--that He gave His life for you and to you so that you could experience His abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of love as He lives it in you, and through you, and as you--if you know and believe the love of God... you can love. You can guard your heart by keeping it open to love. By letting love in, and letting love out. That's the heart's purpose. And that's what we are capable of, when we let God love us. When we stop trying to earn something that can't be earned and just receive and release (receive BY releasing) the gift that we've been given. The heart knows love. It responds to love... by loving!