Know your Heart

Know your Heart….

One day a young man was standing in the middle of town proclaiming he had
the most beautiful heart in the whole valley.
A large crowd gathered and they all admired his heart for it was perfect.
There was not a mark or a flaw in it.
Yes, they all agreed it truly was the most beautiful heart they had ever
seen. The young man was very proud and boasted loudly about his beautiful
heart.

Suddenly, an old man appeared at the front of the crowd and Said, “Why your
heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine.”
The crowd and the young man looked at the old man’s heart. It was beating
strongly, but full of scars, it had places where pieces had been removed
and other pieces put in, but they didn’t fit quite right and there were
several jagged edges. In fact, in some places there were deep gouges where
whole pieces were missing.
The people stared — “How can he say his heart is more beautiful,” they
thought?

The young man looked at the old man’s heart and saw its state and laughed.
“You must be joking,” he said. “Compare your heart with mine, mine is
perfect and yours is a mess of scars and tears.”

“Yes,” said the old man, “yours is perfect looking but I would never trade
with you.
You see, every scar represents a person to whom I have given my
love — I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them, and often they
give me a piece of their heart which fits into the empty place in my
heart, but because the pieces aren’t exact, I have some rough edges, which
I cherish, because they remind me of the love we shared.

Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away, and the other person
hasn’t returned a piece of his heart to me. These are the empty gouges –
giving love is taking a chance. Although these gouges are painful, they
stay open, reminding me of the love I have for these people too, and I
hope someday they may return and fill the space I have waiting. So now do
you see what true beauty really is?


The young man stood silently with tears running down his cheeks. He walked
up to the old man, reached into his perfect young and most beautiful
heart, and ripped a piece out. He offered it to the old man with trembling
hands.
The old man took his offering, placed it in his heart and then took a
piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the wound in the young
man’s heart.
It fit, but not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges.
The young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore but more beautiful
than ever, since love from the old man’s heart flowed into his.
They embraced and walked away side by side saying “Only God” can make a
Beautiful Heart!


Bible Verses on “Heart”

Psalm 51:10 ESV
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Ezekiel 36:26 ESV
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Jeremiah 17:10 ESV
“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

Romans 2:5 ESV
But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

Where is your heart today??? Be Blessed and filled with His Love. Give a piece away. It won’t hurt, and the reward is from Him..