Hearts Talk
Psa 14:1 <To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.> The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Hearts talk and what they have to say is of such greater significance than the mere babblings of any mouth. What they declare and define for the life they possess is central to any good that life might produce, and before anything having to do with wisdom can come from the efforts of a person, the heart will have to have spoken one specific thing with clarity and conviction- “There is a God”. But, this cannot just be an acknowledgement of common truth; this is a statement that can only be spoken from an experience, from actually having been there with God. It’s one of those “I guess you had to be there” instances, where words or facts alone aren’t sufficient.
The problem here is that we’re talking about a heart, something that is incredibly affected by so many different influences. It is vulnerable to what comes to it through the channel of the mind, where knowledge of natural things comes barging in on a continual basis. So many times this ‘mind’ knowledge actually leads the heart in a direction away from its knowledge of God as science, current events, and philosophy impress it with this sense of independence and self sufficiency. How can it honestly declare its awareness of an all powerful God, when it is so full of natural things that cause it to be puffed up and proud? How can it have the occasion to be occupied in the least with noticing God’s existence when completely ensconced in facts, persuasions and arguments that would indicate otherwise, that somehow all this magnificent creation and world around us is the result of some accidental and very well-placed ‘boom’?
The heart is also potentially led away by the emotional experiences that come to it by way of relationships, passions, dreams and expectations. Disappointment, infatuation, rejection, disillusionment, fear, etc. can put a wall of ‘God-defense’ around a heart, disallowing any opportunity for the most eternal relationship, passion, dream and expectation to be nurtured and cultivated in the presence of God. A desire to ‘feel the feeling’ and ‘ride the ride’ can lead the heart down rabbit trails of physical and substance abuse that lead to insignificant and meaningless destinations somewhere far away from the ‘Feeling’ and ‘Ride’ that is just waiting to reveal how insignificant those others are in comparison. Misrepresentations of God by those who’s mouths have claimed to know Him have dislodged any positive impression of what it might really be like to be near Him, and the part of the heart that is most needing to be filled with joyful and fulfilling God life is being kept empty and desolate by so many emotional sentries standing guard at every opening. Even for those hearts that have at one time opened up to His knocking, there is always a line of faithful diversionary agents waiting to separate and block God’s nearness once again.
Whenever true knowledge of God’s goodness is presented to a heart, though, there is an opportunity for it to begin making declarations through every part of its existence that there really is a God who has not only been observed, but experienced. People are destroyed (Isaiah 5:13, Jeremiah 4:22, Hosea 4:6) not for a lack of knowing anything at all, but for being kept by so many other experiences, facts, impressions and sometimes just ‘never-being-told’ from having a true knowledge of God. Those ways chosen that only lead to death and destruction are very clear communication by a heart that it is in full denial of God’s existence for whatever reason. The heart that has become personally convinced of God’s existence, however, will begin to follow a script of righteousness, verifying the validity of any mouthed words and leading to a healthy life of fulfillment and blessing. To really know Him is to walk in His ways and depart completely from the way of the fool. Where once God knowledge had been refused entrance by sentries of doubt, those once disabling tidbits will be expelled and denied reentry by the persuasion that will despise all others.
Today each heart will make a statement. It will speak of just how deeply it is convinced of God’s existence through words spoken and by every way chosen. These declarations will be direct indications of how close the heart has been to the Righteous One and how impressed it has been with Him. And, ultimately there will be a claim made by the heart’s statements that either, “I am fool”, or “I am a child of the living and ever-present God”. The heart talks. What will it say?
