What is the title "Thought of the Heart"
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What is "Think of the Mind"?
Excerpted textbook_ Onnuri Youth Joshua Community Inner Healing Department "Trees Planted by the Stream" textbook
1-1. What is "the mind's thoughts"?
You will often find that you speak differently when expressing your thoughts, when speaking in a group, when speaking alone, and when whispering to yourself. To put it in popular terms, it's like the version is different. This will be especially noticeable if you are talking about something you are shy about or want to hide.
However, the Bible says that there is a deeper thought than the above three cases, that is, there is an essential human thought. The Bible describes this as "the thought of the heart."
“Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, saying, Behold, this child is set for a sign that will be slandered for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and a sword will pierce your heart as a sword will pierce the hearts of many. to reveal his thoughts” (Luke 2:34:35).
The thoughts of the mind are not the intelligent, rational thoughts that normally come to mind. It means a fortified thought engraved in the heart, which can be said to be the heart of a person's intelligence, affection, and righteousness. These hardened thoughts are pride, feelings of inferiority, shame, childhood wounds, things you have not confessed to anyone, and thoughts you do not want to touch.
The Bible describes this as "a strong camp" (2 Corinthians 10:4). The modern Bible translates this as "the devil's fortress". Whether it is built up over and over again in your mind or engraved in a single traumatic experience, it is something that is engraved into your heart. Because it is so deeply engraved that it enters the subconscious or subconscious mind, you may become unaware of these mind thoughts and act as if they did not exist.
Therefore, since the thoughts of the mind are not revealed unless they are stimulated or challenged by other people or events, there usually seems to be no problem. However, when this thought is discovered or exposed, he reacts violently.
He may be angry when he is angry. However, depending on your temperament, you may respond in a variety of ways, such as squeezing your anxiety inside you and disguising as if nothing happened, sleeping indefinitely, or trying hard to erase the memory. Psychology calls this a "defense mechanism."
The following illustration depicts the process of revealing the thoughts of the heart that he did not know.
I was shocked when I got a phone call from a professor at a Christian University several years ago. He remembered the words I heard when I was leading a revival meeting at his school, and he called me.
So he came to my place and we spent about a week together. He was a very learned man and a very spiritual man with a lot of knowledge of the Bible. However, he experienced a disagreement with a certain person at the university where he taught. But it was that the exemplary Christian scholar suddenly became terribly angry. It is said that the expression anger was very appropriate for him. He was not surprised by himself; he felt a great sense of guilt. He didn't know what to do. To solve this problem, he read a lot of the Word, prayed a lot, and tried to entrust all these things to God, but it didn't seem to help much. He confessed to me this way while he was pondering in an extreme situation where he did not know what to do.
"I can't believe it either. But then I felt like running out and killing someone."
The root of his problem could easily be found, but the problem was that he couldn't accept it. He kept telling me about his problems, saying over and over again, "No, with something so stupid... I can't."
I urged him, "What does stupidity have to do with it? Tell me about it."
He was born intelligent as a clever and precocious child. At the age of 6, he was already in the category of 15-year-old intelligence. He was so clever that it was very difficult to get along with people who were not smart. Playtime was a difficult time for him. Although he was a genius boy, he was teased and ridiculed by children because he did not get along well with other children. Playful, rough children taunted him, harassed him, handed him over, toppled him, and wounded him.
What was more difficult, however, was that he experienced emotional disability due to such events. He couldn't help but marvel at how keenly he remembered the event. He remembered all the names of the children who had bullied him at the time, and he even remembered what clothes they were wearing. Years have passed since then, but all those things remain in his memory without being erased. And the well of anger that had been stored deep in his heart had now been opened.
We enumerated each of the many instances of his past experiences, and he called out the names of the children who made fun of him at the time. The things he had to forgive lay before us.
"Are you going to forgive 'Dan'? Will you forgive 'Sally'? And... won't you forgive me?"
It may sound trivial to do this. On the contrary, it was a very painful experience for him. Through prayer, he experienced the grace of forgiving each and every child who had caused him unbearable suffering. The Holy Spirit freed me from the poison in the memory of such pain and freed him from the power of anger that he could not control. That was the first step for him to experience profound change. And with the passage of time, he had a healing experience in which the painful and painful holes in his heart were healed again by the power of God to heal. "
---Excerpt from David A. Seaman's "Healing of Broken Emotions"