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The heart is the governing center of a person. When used simply, it reflects the unity of our inner being, and when used comprehensively, it describes the complexity of our inner being—as composed of mind (what we know), desires (what we love), and will (what we choose).
Our intellectual abilities—our thinking and planning, ideas and insights, musing and meditation, memories and imagination, knowledge and ignorance, wisdom and folly, doubts and convictions—are all attributed to the heart in the Bible.
Our heart tends to track with what we love most. The mind moves in a willful direction.14 It is usually intent on a particular errand. Paul says things like “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit” (Rom. 8:5), or “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth” (Col. 3:2).
God shaped our hearts in such a way that our thinking functions properly only if our desires and will are right with God.9
