Message Series – You Are What You Love
Here we are…in the month of February! Have you ever noticed how, in this month, everything turns to hearts?
It’s maybe a good time for us to reflect on the reality that we are created for love. I’m not talking about the romantic kind that you see in your Valentine’s Day date night movie. I’m talking about the “heart at the center of who we are and where we’re pulled and who we’re becoming” kind of love. In the ancient world, the heart wasn’t referred to simply as the blood pumping organ. It also wasn’t the thing that flutters when you get kissed.
The heart was considered to be the center of our desires, longings, wants.
While understanding of human anatomy has come a long way since biblical times, the basic truth the concept of the “heart” was communicating is that we are creatures of desire at our very center. Made to love. These desires and loves pull us somewhere…towards something. James Smith, in his book “You Are What You Love,” describes the heart like this:
Our hearts…are like existential compasses and embodied homing beacons: our loves are pulled magnetically to some north toward which our hearts have been calibrated.
– James Smith
The trouble is that our hearts are often calibrated in the wrong direction towards the wrong sorts of things. Sometimes these are things that really hurt us and others. Other times our hearts are pointed just enough away from their true home to cause us to have a sense that something’s just “off.”
The good news is that our hearts can be re-calibrated in a sense. The needle can be bent back to its true north.
You can be pointed back toward your true home in God.
We hope you’ll join us in February as we journey deep into mysteries of the human heart and allow God to turn our hearts toward him.
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