Keeping It 100!! (Giving your Heart)
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Keep it 100- urban dictionary- is a slang phrase that means being authentic and truthful, akin to "keeping it real."
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ m 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ n There is no commandment greater than these.” – NIV
– The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trust in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices and I praise Him with my song.
Big Idea - he greatest commandment, given by Jesus, tells us to love God with all of our heart—our desires, emotions, affections, and will
What does it mean to have heart?
When we think about a heart, is it about the love that we have, the emotions we carry?
As we walk into the new year with promises that 2019 being over. It can be exciting and something of a new anticipation. We are filled with the promises of a new thing. But what does that mean?
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The Lord is One. In this, we understand that God is the one that wants us to be unified.
Jesus quotes this from Duet 6:4-5 as he is making is his point that in order to understand God’s greatest commandment. The mother of all commandments you must first understand God’s nature.
UNITY State of being undivided; having oneness; a condition of harmony.
Because God is one, one set of laws was to apply to both Israelites and foreigners
Human history is a story of sin’s disruption of God’s ordained unity. God’s ideal for marriage is for husband and wife to experience unity of life, “one flesh”
Sin in the garden bred mistrust and accusation
Jesus prayed that His disciples would experience unity modeled on the unity that Jesus experienced with the Father.
In our own understanding of who God is, the real authentic God, we are able to truly understand God’s heart. He was “keeping it 100” by allowing us to have the insights that God doesn’t want us to live alone. Instead, God created us to have the unity with God and with others.
Heart
Having a Heart?
The heart is a psychological heart, emotionally lead, volitionally (The act or an instance of making a conscious choice or decision), and moral.
When we think of the words God is asking us to bring into our lives. Or to accept, it is the act of understanding that we must be willing to let it all be aligned to God.
To Love >> With a whole heart >> morally focused >> with a Conscious choice >> Emotionally leading us to find Him >> and processing through our concision measuring of our understanding.
This love needs to be attached in so many places all at once, the best way to think of it is a spider graph.
You see, to keep it real and true. We must as children of God be willing to allow our lives to be connected to him in all things.
Jesus wasn’t simply trying to simplify the law per say. Instead, he was trying to make it more palatable to us to understand that God isn’t in our lives for the short answers. We were never meant to only love God in one point.
In the book of Genesis, we find God’s original plan for humanity.
God Created man and decided he needed a helper. So God created his wife, his helper. In this though God would still walk the gardens and would seek to talk with Adam and Eve. God saw them fully exposed to show that God’s relationship was one of pure trust, pure truth. God desired for us to walk with Him and to be completely whole with Him.
It was something that we find is often missing in the world around us. Some might be in the pews where they aren’t willing to be wholly truthful with God with areas of their lives.
Like Adam and Eve, they see their sin and try to cover it.
But I think the prophet Amos reminds us that it should be something different.
“Can two walk together, expect they be agreed?”
While walking out isn’t a term used in our language today, it means something different then just walking along side of another. Walking out (walk out) is a term that is more like dating. And as Christians, like what Amos was stating, it doesn’t do it justice when trying to express, explain, and display what our Walking with God is meant to look like. It is something that needs to be realigned with God.
Amplified Version translates the text to mean “do two walk together, except they make an appointment?”
Another way that two walk together, they have to slow down to let the stride be matched. If one is trying to lead, while the other doesn’t follow, then there is no communication, no mutual understanding. But when they both agree that the walk is more like a dance. One where one is leading, and the other is following suit to be led, then the cadence of the walk allows two to bring a relationship, a bond, a connection.
The walk of a Christian needs to be that has its pace, it also take the energy, the effort and the price of walking.
Our hearts, are to love God enough to allow our entire lives to be aligned with God in a walking of two next to each other. Jesus, showed His disciples this as they were walking along the roadsides. Jesus didn’t get ahead of them, but he chose to walk in their pace. For three years he walked at a pace to allow his followers to learn something, to grow in their relationship with Him, To allow them to see the heart of someone that wanted to be completely connected to His father.
This is when our hearts can find their rest, in the fact that a love that is matched to God’s is one that is fully able to accept the measure that is required.
Danny Goeke had a song recently, in it, if you ever hear how the song came to be. It talks about a surgery of a woman having open heart surgery. The doctors stopped her heart, they had to go through and put her on a bypass to allow her body to still live as her heart was still and lifeless. But after all the repairs were complete, after all the clamps were removed and blood was able to flow through the organ. Her heart was still motionless. But then the doctor went to the side of the woman’s head and bent over to tell her something. You see the guy that wrote the song her the whole story of the surgery and was eager to hear the outcome. But he wasn’t ready for this. The doctor whispered in the woman’s ear.. “tell your heart to beat again!”
You see, we all have a heart that needs to beat again. It needs to go into a rhythm that only a creator can place into us. It has to beat in the precise way to allow us to live.
What God is asking about the physical heart, the emotional heart is to trust it to Him WHOLELY.
You see we all have the choice, to Keep it 100 and allow God to control the rest. But that only comes through our desire to surrender.