We shield our hearts from everything, we defend our pumping blood and the deepest cores of our very lives from contact with anything that could go too deep and cause us harm. Any extraction is too costly, so don’t risk it, better to keep this defended.
Our Spouses and children certainly belong there. But so do our extended families, and our neighbors too, according to the commandment, if we are to love. But we fill our hearts with the distractions of our world as well. Slowly we come to love our home, our car, our ball team, our careers, our work. Soon our entire heart can be so full of stuff that we want no more.
If we have experienced loss, we know heart break and heart ache. This experience builds calluses. “ Let’s not let that happen again. Man, too painful”. As we have a few bad experiences we begin to shield this heart from anything that might pierce, and only let in what we know to be safe. Then we focus on those nice safe ones. Or worse case, we grow so callous that we harbor evil in there and have no room for compassion or any extension toward another soul who may be presented to us with a need. And most of us can become so mesmerized by our mundane loves that there is no real space for the Holy Spirit of God. We come to our efforts of worship, hearts too filled with the rest to extend it, to open it to our loving father God who knows all about how these other things have affected us. It takes a concerted effort to unchain the shield we construct and let Him in there to heal and strengthen our life’s blood. It is so difficult to remember that He is the source of this very life that courses through at the pumping of the organ.
What’s in Your Worship?
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