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Originally Posted by Boanerges
Did you hear about the man who missed heaven by eighteen inches- that was the distance between his head and his heart.  |
Matthew 22:37
Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'"
It's interesting to note that we love God with our hearts, our souls, and our minds. First and foremost, we make the decision to love Him with our mind. This thought is encouraging to the soul, and the more we meditate on what it means to love God, the more it becomes conviction that rests within our heart.
In a sense, the soul is that spiritual ramrod that pushes "head knowledge" into "heart knowledge." We cannot allow the driver of that ramrod, the Holy Spirit, to be made of no effect in our lives. Think of it like a T-post driver. It's a heavy, hollow tube blocked at one end with handles on either side. Once the T-post is partially in the ground, the post has been placed but not seated. So, you bring that driver down on the head of that T-post, and drive it deep into the ground where not even some of the strongest men you know could rip it out. After a while, you have to stop and take a rest from driving T-posts, because it wears you out.
The Spirit is more than glad to set the T-posts that will become the fenceposts for our hedge of spiritual protection. The Spirit will drive those posts deep, but after a while, if the Spirit keeps driving the same post, it's driven so far into the ground that it's made of no use. We have to give it a new post (new "head knowledge") to set into the ground. That's where reading the Bible and fellowship comes in: we gather that head knowledge of our Creator, and it's "driven home" by the Spirit. The more T-posts we give Him, the better our "shield of faith" becomes.
I hope that makes sense. I shouldn't write posts when I'm tired. Someone tell me that made sense.