Heart connection reveals amazing significance

Without a solid sense of significance, meaning, and purpose, it’s easy to slip into sadness, discouragement and despair. Your life has a purpose. Find it. Pursue it. Fulfill it. If life was without meaning the very concept of meaning would have no meaning to us.

I’m conscious, I care, I have a conscience, I’m aware of good and evil, I analyze, I choose to resist or to obey thoughts, feelings, desires, and even truth; therefore, I exist as more than a material mechanism.

Knowledge can easily replace awe and mystery with the pride of intellect. It often makes people proud of their ponderings and causes them to abandon their wonderings. Unanswered questions are an invitation to awe and wonder, not a threat to your intellect. They encourage us to ponder mystery with an open heart, not just analyze with the mind. The mind can articulate definitions but meaning in discovered with the heart.

Joy is the intoxication of wonder, not the inebriation of liquor. To live like life is meaningless is unbearable. Even materialists attribute meaning to their life and live like it has some significance.

To experience the fuller meaning of life I have to look beyond me. For me insight is much more enjoyable than self-focused diversion. “There’s pleasure in sin for a season,” but it knows nothing of the wisdom that fills the heart with joyful dance.

Connecting heart-to-heart with other people is one of the most significant and lasting things a person can do. A moment of genuine heart-connection can last a lifetime. I’ve been fortunate to have had countless moments of heart connection with multitudes of diverse people. When just one of those moments comes to my memory, I am filled with awe and gratitude. O that Christianity would lay aside formalism and embrace humble heart connection with Christ and with one another.

Too often heart-connection is labeled as emotionalism and looked down on by rationalistic forms of Christianity. How unfortunate that Christianity which should facilitate intimate heart-connection has been turned into a program for passive spectators who mostly protect their heart from each other. The more Christ-followers you make heart-to-heart connections with the more closely you’re connected to the body of Christ. Too many Christians avoid heart connections altogether or make them with only a tiny inner circle.

People avoid heart connections because they fear having their heart exposed, however, Christ-followers have been given the power to overcome that fear. See 1 Timothy 1:6.

Awareness of the presence of the living Jesus makes every moment deeply meaningful. The feeling of meaninglessness is indicative of a loss of focus on “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” If you feel like you’re running on empty you probably are. Let Jesus take over the wheel and fill you with the thrill of His ongoing presence.

Heart connection reveals that finances are a false measure of a person’s net worth. A person’s net value is caught up in the wonder of their existence.

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