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Heart and Mind

April 1st, 2017 · No Comments

Ephesians 1:18 (New Living Translation)

I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance.

One of the discussions Christians have is whether Christianity is about what is in the heart, what we feel, versus what is in the mind, what we understand. This is the classic either-or argument.

Versus like the above refute the either-or argument and show that Christianity is a both-and situation—both feel and understanding. The writer wants our hearts to be flooded so that our minds will understand.

“How does that work?” my only answer is, “well.”

The heart and the mind, at least the way we or I understand them, work together all the time. That is the way God made us. That is how God approaches us. Let us stop fighting God’s creation and accept it—a little more each day.

Tags: Ephesians · New Testament

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