Heart
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
In the Broadway play, “Damn Yankees,” Washington Senators' manager, Van Buren, encourages his players to keep trying to win against the Yankees. His players have talent but they also need one essential ingredient for success: "Heart."
They sing:
“You've gotta have heart! Miles and miles and miles of heart! Oh, it's fine to be a genius of corse! But keep that ol' horse before the cart! First you've got to have heart!”
Yes, in the sports world, much is made of heart. Horses that beat the odds are said to run with Heart. Football players who play even when injured are players with heart. Rocky Balboa was a fighter that had heart.
A person with heart is a person committed to the cause – willing to sacrifice all – even the body – to accomplish the win.
Frank Sinatra left his heart in San Francisco – high on a hill it calls to me
To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.
The morning fog may chill the air, I don't care.
My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea.
Rod Stewart romances his love with his song, “You’re in my heart” as he explains that she is “In my heart, you’re in my soul – you’ll be my breath should I grow old, you are my lover, you are my best friend.”
Bon Jovi was “shot through the heart as he lay there alone
In the dark through the heart
It's all part of this game that we call love”
People the world over have pictured the heart as the symbol of everlasting love. Pre-teens proclaim their love for that special person with red hearts on Valentine Day cards. Couples carve hearts on trees, proclaiming their love and identifying themselves with initials. Teenagers sing of having their heart broken by their love’s betrayal and anniversary couples hold hands and listen to their hearts. Ever since Cupid shot the first arrow, the heart has been the symbol for love.
We describe people as having a “gentle heart” or a “brave heart” or a “hard heart.” Each description conjures an universally accepted behavior pattern – summing up complex characteristics in two words.
Science explains the importance of our heart – the strong muscle that circulates life-giving blood throughout the body. Next to the brain, the heart is the most critical organ we have. Without a heart, the body dies.
Our Scripture warns – “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
It would then follow that the condition of our heart would indicate the type of treasure that we have.
Do we have a hardened heart? Pharaoh’s heart was hard – he refused to listen to God’s messengers, he closed himself off from God – and was destroyed. It would seem that his treasure was of this world – gold, silver, power, fame, and he was destroyed.
Do we have a faithful heart? Abraham’s heart was faithful and God made a covenant with him. It would seem that he opened his heart to God’s promises – land, seed, blessing and he was blessed.
Does our heart seek that which is from man? Or, do we seek after that which will last for eternity.
Will people look at the fruits of our heart and see God? I look around the room and my heart is filled as I am surrounded by and uplifted by those here – those whose hearts are filled with love for God – who treasure that which lasts forever.
I thank God.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
In the Broadway play, “Damn Yankees,” Washington Senators' manager, Van Buren, encourages his players to keep trying to win against the Yankees. His players have talent but they also need one essential ingredient for success: "Heart."
They sing:
“You've gotta have heart! Miles and miles and miles of heart! Oh, it's fine to be a genius of corse! But keep that ol' horse before the cart! First you've got to have heart!”
Yes, in the sports world, much is made of heart. Horses that beat the odds are said to run with Heart. Football players who play even when injured are players with heart. Rocky Balboa was a fighter that had heart.
A person with heart is a person committed to the cause – willing to sacrifice all – even the body – to accomplish the win.
Frank Sinatra left his heart in San Francisco – high on a hill it calls to me
To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.
The morning fog may chill the air, I don't care.
My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea.
Rod Stewart romances his love with his song, “You’re in my heart” as he explains that she is “In my heart, you’re in my soul – you’ll be my breath should I grow old, you are my lover, you are my best friend.”
Bon Jovi was “shot through the heart as he lay there alone
In the dark through the heart
It's all part of this game that we call love”
People the world over have pictured the heart as the symbol of everlasting love. Pre-teens proclaim their love for that special person with red hearts on Valentine Day cards. Couples carve hearts on trees, proclaiming their love and identifying themselves with initials. Teenagers sing of having their heart broken by their love’s betrayal and anniversary couples hold hands and listen to their hearts. Ever since Cupid shot the first arrow, the heart has been the symbol for love.
We describe people as having a “gentle heart” or a “brave heart” or a “hard heart.” Each description conjures an universally accepted behavior pattern – summing up complex characteristics in two words.
Science explains the importance of our heart – the strong muscle that circulates life-giving blood throughout the body. Next to the brain, the heart is the most critical organ we have. Without a heart, the body dies.
Our Scripture warns – “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
It would then follow that the condition of our heart would indicate the type of treasure that we have.
Do we have a hardened heart? Pharaoh’s heart was hard – he refused to listen to God’s messengers, he closed himself off from God – and was destroyed. It would seem that his treasure was of this world – gold, silver, power, fame, and he was destroyed.
Do we have a faithful heart? Abraham’s heart was faithful and God made a covenant with him. It would seem that he opened his heart to God’s promises – land, seed, blessing and he was blessed.
Does our heart seek that which is from man? Or, do we seek after that which will last for eternity.
Will people look at the fruits of our heart and see God? I look around the room and my heart is filled as I am surrounded by and uplifted by those here – those whose hearts are filled with love for God – who treasure that which lasts forever.
I thank God.