We’ve all heard about love.
“Love is blind,” they say, believing that the ignorance of Love is bliss.
But I beg to differ. I’d go so far as to say that if you want to be wise . . . try loving. And if you want to live a life of cluelessness . . . have a hard heart.
Say what? Here it is in common terms:
Hatred is like stealing radioactive waste . . . and putting it in your pocket.
Envy is like letting a python swallow you inch by inch.
Revenge is having vertigo in a room full of knives and broken glass.
Rebellion is a thrilling water slide . . . into a shark tank.
Bitterness is like drinking some arsenic every day
Yep. While the world would relate smarts with having a finely tuned brain . . . the Bible says wisdom (and the ability to avail ourselves of it) comes with a soft heart. Scripture also equates a lack of acuity with a hard heart.
- “‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’” [Jesus quoting Is. 6: 9-10 in Matthew 13:14-16] NIV
- “ . . . Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened?” [Jesus speaking] Mark 8:17 NIV
- “. . . knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools . . .” Romans 1:21-22 ASV
- “I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.” Ephesians 4:17-18 NIV
So when I find myself struggling to hear God, to know what the wise path is . . . I must consider my own heart.
When I’m praying for some “genius” that’s running toward the abyss . . . perhaps it’s not more information he needs . . . but a healed heart.
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