He Made My Heart

 "God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart."

Izaak Walton, 1593-1683

White fluffy clouds, blue sky and goldenrod.

In a fiction book I read, I was reminded God made the heart, and He can fix it. I failed to note which book it was, but it was a series by Tracie Peterson and Judith Pella.

"To know Him is to love and obey Him. It is to trust Him even when the way is unclear, and all hope is gone . . . To trust Him even when your heart is broken . . . especially when it is broken . . . For where else may you take your broken heart, if not to Him who made it in the first place?"

The highways and byways are beautiful in NW PA!

God created every part of our human body, and that includes the heart. When our heart is broken, He is the one who can bring healing, and repair the broken parts. I'm not sure if I've heard it expressed quite that way before. I like it.

We can try to repair our heart, filling it with any and everything to bring healing, but unless that healing comes from the Creator of our heart it won't last. It may carry us through some days, but the Creator is the only One who brings healing to a broken heart.

"The secret of your own heart you can never know; but you can know Him who knows its secret."

George MacDonald, 1824-1905

Our heart is important for much more than just keeping us alive. Many years ago, I heard another rendition of Psalm 4:23 which says: "Above all else, guard your heart; for everything you do flows from it." Pastor Scott said it this way: "More than all else, to be watched over and protected (as something in a confined place) it is imperative that you preserve and keep your heart sensitive; because from within it comes divine direction for your life."

Queen Anne Lace getting into the picture too!

Our heart also sees. In Ephesians 1:18 it says: "I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you. The riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and His incomparably great power for us who believe."

"The soul has eyes that need to be and can be enlightened, i.e. flooded with divine light. The Holy Spirit opens the eyes and heart in order that the believer may see the great truths mentioned here. The purpose of spiritual illumination and spiritual perception is that believers may know and experience God's calling, in heritance, and power." Liberty Bible Commentary, Ephesians 1:18

Yes, God made my heart. It is made to do miraculous things to all who believe. Sometimes it's happy, sometimes it's sad. Sometimes it's filled with joy, sometimes it cries. One thing I'm very sure of . . . God knows my heart. I'm very safe in His care!

"A heart in every thought renewed

And full of love divine,

Perfect and right and pure and good,

A copy, Lord of Thine."

Charles Wesley, 1707-1788

By His Grace . . .