Many scriptures refer to the heart and mind. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength" Mark12:30. Within our 4 dimensions, height, width, depth, and time, this idea is not hard to figure out. But when you add the spiritual dimensions, the complexity is beyond me. I will look at heart The heart can influence us differently. So I took an assessment of my heart from a positive aspect. The first emotion I want to experience is to be close to God. I find myself wanting to spend time with the Spirit and forget about the world. A really close second to me is that my heart longs for my Sveta. That relationship is a paradigm shift for me. I have traveled extensively and can honestly say I never missed anyone when I traveled. Last year when she went to Russia for a month, it seemed like a year or more. I wanted to be next to her. In the same way I am sensing that feeling with God. What a tragedy if we do not miss God. I heard a comment last week about a person hearing people who were practicing their rituals and did not feel near to God. Obviously feeling is not the whole picture, but it is also an important part of a relationship.
After God and Sveta, the jury is out on the rest. I have so many feelings and thoughts, I could neither rank them nor prioritize time. There are professional objectives and tasks to do. I have many relationships in my life. I have a desire to invest in the kingdom of God, yet that is such a "humungolonious" concept. I have an objective to research and write on orphans. I like to read and study. I like to work on the house and yard. As a planner, I have to let it go and move with the Spirit. Planning just does not work right now. I would have to do that at the expense of being open to the moving of the Spirit and also responding to other people who appear to need me right now. Being in the world, but not of the world causes conflicts in our heart.We need to periodically assess our heart to see what we truly love.
After God and Sveta, the jury is out on the rest. I have so many feelings and thoughts, I could neither rank them nor prioritize time. There are professional objectives and tasks to do. I have many relationships in my life. I have a desire to invest in the kingdom of God, yet that is such a "humungolonious" concept. I have an objective to research and write on orphans. I like to read and study. I like to work on the house and yard. As a planner, I have to let it go and move with the Spirit. Planning just does not work right now. I would have to do that at the expense of being open to the moving of the Spirit and also responding to other people who appear to need me right now. Being in the world, but not of the world causes conflicts in our heart.We need to periodically assess our heart to see what we truly love.
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