The Heart

Psalm 86 :11 says "Teach me your way O Lord, that I may walk in you truth; unite my heart to fear your name"


I like that last bit, "unite my heart to fear your name". I like it a lot. "Unite my heart". Hmmmm. . . . .

Who remembers the parable of the farmer sowing the seeds? Where some land on rocks and get eaten by birds, some fall among weeds and some grow in good soil? Every time I got told that story in Sunday school or at church, I got told it meant that our faith are the seeds and that only a few make it. Now I guess that made sense. Problem is, we only look at the seeds as faith. Where does our faith reside? In our hearts.

Now if you look at that story again you see that faith is being planted in our hearts. That the field that the story speaks of is OUR heart. You may notice that the field is rocky is some places, hardened from pain. You may also notice that it is full of weeds, that choke our faith in the concerns of this world. Then there is the nice fertile soil, where your faith may grow, the untainted remains of your heart. Our heart is splinted, fractured.

James 1:5-8 speaks of faith. Speaks of the doubt in man, the double mindedness. Our faith is not in the mind though is it. It is in our hearts. James 1:5-8 speaks of the splinted, fractured, broken state of our hearts, the doubts of our mind like the birds eating the seeds off the rocks.

Now lets go back to the original verse, Psalm 86 :11. That little bit I liked. "Unite my heart". If you want to united a splinted heart, If you want GOD to do that, you are asking for pain. Like a shattered glass or a broken sword, a broken heart must be melted back together. Put through the furnace, refined.


Our hearts are broken, our mind doubtful. We avoid pain, we avoid what we perceive as danger to our nice little balanced hearts. If David can ask God to melt his heart down in the hope that he may truly fear Gods name, surely we can ask God to melt our heart in hope that we may better ourselves, strengthen who we are in Christ.

Want some refining? Want more of God?

Just ask, David did. He got it. So can you.



LJA