by Andrew Murray
With the heart
man believes. It is with all the heart that we are to seek, serve, and love
God. It is only with the heart that we can know God or worship God in spirit
and truth. It is in the heart, therefore, that the divine Word does the work.
It is into our heart God has sent forth the Holy Spirit of His Son. It is the
heart, the inward life of desire and love and will that the Holy Spirit guides
into all the truth.
The Bible says, “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and
lean not unto thine own understanding.” Do not trust your own
understanding. It can only give you thoughts and ideas about spiritual things
without the reality of them. It will deceive you with the thought that the
truth, if received into the mind, will somehow surely enter your heart. It will
blind you to the terrible experience which is universal: the practice of daily
Bible reading, listening to God’s Word every Sunday and yet becoming neither
humble, nor holy, nor heavenly minded because of it.
Instead of trusting your understanding, come
with your heart to the Bible and trust Him. Let your whole heart be set upon
the living God as the teacher when you enter your prayer closet. Then you will
find good understanding. God will give you an understanding heart, a spiritual
understanding.
With every
thought from the Word that your understanding grasps, bow before God in
dependence and trust. Believe with your whole heart that God can and will make
it true. Ask for the Holy Spirit to make it work in your heart until the Word
becomes the strength of your life.
Persevere in
this, and the time will come when the Holy Spirit, dwelling in the heart and
life, will keep the understanding in subjection and let His holy light shine
through it.
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