Journey of Faith: Our Heart Matters

As I was sitting doing my devotion, these few words came to me  "Our Heart Matters". Yes, indeed our heart matters to God especially when we are in an emotional turmoil, it's hard to find rest and peace in God. We are sometimes hurriedly trying to find something to solve that emotional emptiness or that void or something to cheer us up.

I remember when my dad passed away, there was this emptiness in me. I turned to playing UNO with Ben. And in turn, my brother thought that I didn't care about what was happening. All I wanted was to just run or forget about it but you know what, God said, "Be still and know that I am God."

I was reading somewhere that said, "In our heart, there's a place for God. But do you know that in God's heart, there's a place for us?" I marvel at the fact that God really cares for me.

Psalm 139

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

¹ 

You have searched me, Lord,

    and you know me.

² 

You know when I sit and when I rise;

    you perceive my thoughts from afar.

³ 

You discern my going out and my lying down;

    you are familiar with all my ways.

⁴ 

Before a word is on my tongue

    you, Lord, know it completely.

⁵ 

You hem me in behind and before,

    and you lay your hand upon me.

⁶ 

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

    too lofty for me to attain.

⁷ 

Where can I go from your Spirit?

    Where can I flee from your presence?

⁸ 

If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

    if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

⁹ 

If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

    if I settle on the far side of the sea,

¹⁰ 

even there your hand will guide me,

    your right hand will hold me fast.

¹¹ 

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me

    and the light become night around me,”

¹² 

even the darkness will not be dark to you;

    the night will shine like the day,

    for darkness is as light to you.

¹³ 

For you created my inmost being;

    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

¹⁴ 

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

    your works are wonderful,

    I know that full well.

¹⁵ 

My frame was not hidden from you

    when I was made in the secret place,

    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

¹⁶ 

Your eyes saw my unformed body;

    all the days ordained for me were written in your book

    before one of them came to be.

¹⁷ 

How precious to me are your thoughts,^[a] God!

    How vast is the sum of them!

¹⁸ 

Were I to count them,

    they would outnumber the grains of sand—

    when I awake, I am still with you.

Amazing isn't it? God knows everything about us.

That's why our hearts matter so much to God. He wants us to guard our hearts for it is the wellspring of life. (Proverbs 4:23). He loves us so much that He wants to fill us with His everlasting peace, love and even speak to us. We just need to learn to find rest in God. Just like how Mary sat in front Jesus feet and listened to Him. Jesus said, "She has chosen the better." Let's choose the better like Mary.

Luke 12:34, "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

Love,
Becky