You Need Your Heart for Faith

The Capacity of the Heart

I think it’s worth repeating something stated in an earlier in blog: “The heart has the capacity to understand the indescribable, unfathomable love of God that the mind or intellect does not have.” Belief in facts and figures, in formulas, in observable things, especially those that have no emotion attached to them, is relatively easy for you and me. I can define a mathematical equation entirely with my intellect. There are no feelings attached. But when I try to define a word like “security,” it is difficult to do because much of the way that word is defined is attached to a feeling, for example, “I feel secure when…” Try to define the word “faith.” It is difficult, indeed, to define this word using only intellectual concepts. Faith, because it requires believing in something you can’t see, because it has such a deep root in you and me, cannot be understood with only your mind. You need your heart involved to have any chance at comprehending what faith means.  

I believe this is a clue for you and me as we walk down a path of growing in faith. You can see a tiny slice of Philip’s and Thomas’s experience with Christ over the three years of His ministry. “Are you not persuaded,” that a walk with Christ requires faith? And can you see that faith requires a growing relationship with Him?  

Christ has prophesied over you that you will “do the works that I have been doing and even greater works!” And He has said, “I will do whatever you ask in my name so that the Son will be glorified in the Father!!”  

We have works to do and we’re going to need faith to do them!