A heart cries out
In sad futility:
Is anyone out there?
Does anyone care?
Yes, says the Lord
I hear your prayer.
Do you hear my answer?
Do you really care?
A soul sadly survives
Without being alive:
Why do I matter?
Why do my thoughts scatter?
I still love your soul.
I showed you the Way.
When will you believe,
That your heart will not deceive?
Is anyone out there?
Does anyone care?
I hear you in prayer.
I AM your joy and salvation.
Sad, isn’t it – the futility of one without God.
In fact, the Bible points to many of God’s faithful who have moments of doubt and hopelessness. Yet their answer always comes though faith and prayer.
The American Heritage Dictionary gives us a rather complete picture of futility by definition:
- The quality of having no useful result; uselessness.
- Lack of importance or purpose; frivolousness.
- A futile act.
“Life without God is lifelessness.
We often confuse the emotions and moods of the heart with the temporal worldly meanings imposed on our self-seeking souls by the ruler of this world.
- The world does not equate Heart to soul.
- Love is only equated to sexual love by the imposition of false meaning twisting our every thought.
We do not think to ask God for an answer. Time after time our heart cries out in hopelessness.
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Without God as part of the love of our life, we miss out on the very love God intended.
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? – Jeremiah 17:9 KJV
If you want to understand the
heart, look to the Hebrew root word:
leb.
Foremost in your understanding of your own heart is that your heart is your soul.
We are not really just the flesh and bones that others see or the mind and actions you show off to others. At the core of our being, you are your Leb:
inner man, mind, will, heart, understanding;
- Inner part, midst
- midst (of things)
- heart (of man)
- soul, heart (of man)
- mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory
- inclination, resolution, determination (of will)
- conscience
- heart (of moral character)
- as seat of appetites
- as seat of emotions and passions
- as seat of courage
Yes, there is much more to us than just our nature of the flesh.
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The scriptures about the heart are also most revealing. The list is long and includes some of what Jesus had to say about our hearts.
Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ – John 7:38 ESV
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So why are faith and prayer the answer?
Did you hear a conversation in the opening poem?
One caught-up in his or her own heart will have neither humility nor faith to hear God’s answer:
requiring trust in Jesus as Lord.
Psalm 4:
Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!
You have given me relief when I was in distress.
Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!
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Jesus Christ, who sacrificed Himself on the Cross because of God’s love for you said:
And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith. – Matthew 21:22 ESV
Does your heart cry out?
You with ears to hear, listen to God in your conversation of prayer.
Jesus IS Lord.
