A Reflection on Heart
by LewisIn last Sunday’s message we ended with verse 18 from Ephesians 1, which says, “I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened….” There is a well known praise chorus that says, “Open the eyes of my heart” and I’ve written a song called Hearts That Hear which includes the lines, “Blessed is every heart that sees, Blessed the hearts that hear his voice.” My song, at least, and I think Paul Baloche’s song, too, are a reference to Jesus quoting Isaiah (see Matthew 13.15).
But in all these places there is one thing you should know, and that is that the heart was not just the seat of emotion for these Jews (either in Isaiah’s time or in Jesus’ time), but it was also the seat of knowledge and understanding.
Too often modern day American Christians have not known this and have therefore claimed that Paul was hoping the Ephesians would have some kind of feeling about God. And we should love him with our entire being, but here Paul is praying that the church would understand with their corporate mind something that is impossible to understand without God’s help.
What is that something? That’s what we’ll be talking about this coming Sunday.
Every blessing!
Lewis