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Old Nov 13, 2006, 09:21 AM
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I tend to get off track anytime I start "intellectualizing" and using my good head too much. My T taught me to "check your heart" and whenever I do that, good things happen. So, when I get frustrated, I try to remember to check my heart for the next step. I think like people's feelings about or belief/knowledge of God, some think checking one's heart is actually checking one's gut but I don't think that way; I have gut reactions too and they don't take the time and effort that checking my heart does. I know Matthew 15:19 says, "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies" (KJV) but I don't think that's ALL that comes out of the heart. Heck, if Lucifer fell from God's Heaven, then I can be "whole" too and have both bad and good things come out of my heart. I think we're meant to be whole like God is and our "heart" reflects that. For me, there's too much makes-sense reflection of God to not believe.
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