The Music of the Heart
Over the past months, we have discussed different aspects of a right heart: peace, joy, humility, submission to authority, confidence in God, the fear of God, simplicity, and more. Because each discussion focuses on only one characteristic, we might think that these characteristics are somehow separated from each other as the stripes on a zebra are. Such thinking would be a mistake. The heart is a holistic thing. Its attitudes are the sounds of a symphony. They do not exist in isolation but interact together to create a concerto of the soul. Consequently, one of the best ways to tell…