The Lord invited me to study Psalm 33 this morning. I wondered if I had heard Him correctly. After all, Psalm 32 and 37 are among my favorites, but I couldn’t think of any connection to that chapter, but who am I to disagree with God?
Sure enough, there was a treasure trove laying in plain sight, but there was also some hidden treasure. Verse 14 and 15 read, “From the place of His dwelling He looks on all the inhabitants of the earth; He fashions their hearts individually*; He considers all their works.”
That blew me away, that God would fashion each of our hearts individually and uniquely – for His purpose and delight.
It made me wonder what my heart was fashioned for because the heart is the birthplace, or dare I say… the place of conception, where everything that will be born (manifested) in your life is originally fashioned (formed).
Don’t confuse your mind with your heart.
Your mind is the processor. It receives and processes information much like a computer. It can rearrange what it has stored up into interesting ideas and solutions, but it can only work with what it has received. It cannot compose from what it hasn’t stored up.
Proverbs 10:14 says that the “wise store up knowledge”. This is an essential responsibility and privilege we have because everything we build or create in life, is limited by, and shaped with… knowledge.
As an act of our will, we fill our minds with information. We choose what we watch and what we listen to. The sum of that information gets stored for later recall, and our will makes decisions to act, based on the collective of stored information. Selah.
But wait… There’s more…
By the choice of our will, we can then stimulate perhaps the most potent gift God gave to mankind… our imagination, which according to Luke 1:51 and Genesis 8:21 resides in our heart.
The mind and heart are not separate locked rooms within us. They flow back and forth like two merging rivers. They dance together and co-create.
Which way they flow, and which rhythm they dance to, is a decision of the will, which must fend of the desires of the flesh and rightly discern the thoughts and intents of the heart by holding it up to the scrutiny of the Word. (Hebrews 4:12)
The heart is the emotional one, always thinking either without limits or with fear based excessive limits. The mind is the more rationale one, always doing risk / benefit analysis, counting the cost to the level of its prior training, reminding us of past failures and successes, and the conditions that created those results.
The heart says, “Let go and let God” but it can also say “Hold on… I’m scared!”
The mind comes up with a host of reasons from previous stored up experiences or stories heard, as to why that is either a great idea or the worst. The desires of the old nature tend to use the mind like a computer to access information that supports what the heart wants. From there, your heart decides.
It’s called confirmation bias.
The heart wants what it wants depending on how you’ve trained it. The heart feels and senses things. The mind reasons and analyzes things.
Your eyes and ears are the primary intake valves that feed the mind. What you think about, tends to seep into the heart and form an image. We call that our imagination.
Our imagination is craftsmanship at work on the inside.
It’s where ideas get framed. We see the design, and then form intention with plans and action steps. In similar way, God fashioned or framed us. Before He gathered together the clay to form Adam, He knew what He wanted him to look like, and the dominion he would have. (Genesis 1:26)
And because we were made not only in God’s image, but also with His likeness, we have the capacity to imagine a future not yet in existence, describe it, plan for it and build it.
As sales professionals and business owners, part of our job is to imagine an outcome for our prospects and customers that is vibrant and real, then describe that future to them so it forms on the canvas of their heart (imagination) and then invite them into it.
What you form on the inside, can take shape on the outside. I don’t think God would give us the ability to imagine creating something that could never be created. We may well imagine something not worth creating, or imagine something we don’t know how to create, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be created.
Your imagination is the workshop where future products, services and ideas are formed and framed. So stir up your imagination. Get a clear vision of the possibilities. If you can see it in your heart, you can believe it. And if you believe it, you will see it. (Mark 11:23-24)
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