Your Whole Heart

Our hearts here on this earth have been wounded, this is because sadly it’s a sin-sick world. This is why so often I’m only giving myself to others halfheartedly. I’m trying to be more vulnerable, not hardhearted, but I’ve learned I need to protect my heart. To be careful who I trust. Worse yet, my own heart has proven to be deceitful. I can’t lean on my own understanding. My heart has accidentally misled me with sad feelings and inappropriate desires and thoughts that have led me in wrong directions. Oh yes, I have to play it safe, I’ve been hurt. Why is it like this? Because us humans are not perfect. However, God is perfect. We can trust God with our heart. We have to get to the point where we will open the doors of our wounded hearts wide to Him and give him exactly what he asks for, which is our whole heart. As a matter of fact he tells us unless it’s with our whole heart when we seek Him we will not find Him.

Jesus said the most important commandment is to, “Love the Lord your God with ALL your heart and with ALL your soul and with ALL your mind and with ALL your strength.” With all that we are, we are to love him.

Honestly, I sometimes feel like only part of my heart is within me, but this is another misled sad feeling. My full heart is in fact within me. Yours is too. Any pain or impurities within can be made right. Time with God is the way. His perfect loving kindness is what heals us. He treasures our heart and brings us back to completeness and wholeness. This beautiful restoration through love overflows and we only want to give back to Him what he has given us, our whole heart, our complete love. ALL our love. We can actually live up to and fulfill the most important commandment Jesus told us, not out of demand but desire. Our hearts desire. Not halfhearted or broken-hearted but whole-hearted.