Heart Knowledge part 5
We always want to wage war. Especially between the head and the heart. We want things to "make sense" but we also want things to "feel right." And a lot of the time those two don't line up. Its only when we understand that the heart of the God and the mind of Christ are the same thing that we can stop fighting. The ONLY fight we're supposed to participate in, in the New Testament, is the good fight of faith. Laying hold of eternal life. Which doesn't mean GETTING eternal life. That's the gift of God, and that's something we don't NEED... that's something we HAVE. Laying hold of it means receiving it. Receiving it and releasing it. Receiving it BY releasing it. Experiencing eternal life... by living. Remember I said the heart only knows one thing? The heart knows love. And since living and loving don't just go together, but are in fact the same thing, the heart only knows life. Which makes sense. Because if your heart stops beating... you stop living. To live is to love and to love is to live. They aren't just connected. They are the same thing. Eternal life is a life of love. Because love never fails. It never gives up, or stops, or goes away. And, listen, I'm not saying everybody you've ever loved in your life will BE in your life for your whole life. That's not realistic. But they remain in your heart. So they live with you, in a sense, forever. Even our loved ones who physically die. The mark they left on us remains. But I feel like I might be getting off track a little bit. So let me get back to where I think I wanted to be to end this Rant series. The head vs the heart. Head knowledge, or trying to make things make sense, vs heart knowledge, or what we know deep down inside to be true. And that's the difference. That's the key. There's a truth that goes like this, "God is love and He loves you." And although the fact of the matter may make it seem like we don't deserve love--because of our mistakes, or our bad choices, or what have you--the truth of the matter is that deserve's got nothing to do with it. God doesn't love us because we deserve it. God loves us because God is love. Period. When we had nothing to offer Him, He hung on a cross and died for us. He gave His life for us, and He gave His life to us. Not because He wanted something FROM us, but because He wanted something FOR us. He wanted to give something TO us. That's what love is; giving. Giving everything you have and everything you are. Laying your life down for your friends. Not because you can get something out of it. But because you have something to give. Something that everybody needs. The heart knows love. That's the desire of the heart. And its a knowledge that passes knowledge. Because truth is higher than fact. Because the head might "know" something, but when you experience something the heart KNOWS it. And a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument. "Cool theory, bro. But I have a PHD. Personally Have Done it. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt." The heart knows what it knows because the only way it knows anything is to experience it. To be loved, and to love others with that same love!