There’s also the source of your truest, God-created desires that clearly reveals your glory ... and the source is your heart. I need to clarify what I mean by heart. I’m not referring to the modern understanding of “feelings”—as in the head (thinking) and the heart (feeling); that is a Greek view of the heart, which is how most of us were educated and thus how we interpreted the word. I am referring instead to the Hebrew understanding of the word as used in Scripture: the truest, deepest part of you—your soul. That part from which you must believe (Rom. 10:9); from which you must forgive (Matt. 18:35); from which you are to work (Col. 3:23); from which you truly see (Eph. 1:18); from which good or evil come (Luke 6:45)—the part that we must not lose (Prov. 4:23); the part that Christ came to heal, restore, and set free (Isa. 61). Your heart is the real you.
It is in your redeemed, made-new heart that your truest desires are stored. God said in the Old Testament, “I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God” (Ezek. 11:19–20). In the New Testament this undivided heart and new spirit are described as coming from “God Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight” (Phil. 2:13 AB). So we are instructed, “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart” (Col. 3:23).
