Heart

In Scripture heart is used figuratively in most instances, being one of the richest terms for the totality of man's inner nature.

Whereas to Greek (and the English speaker) heart refers rather to emotions - to the Hebrew it refers rather to the centre of man's thoughts. 

We read in Jeremiah 17:9 that "The heart is crooked above all and very sick (wicked)" – who shall know it?

Messiah teaches us that the heart is the source from which come all forms of sin - Matthew 15:19, “For out of the heart come forth wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, whorings, thefts, false witnessings, slanders.

Mark 7:21-22, 21“For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasonings, adulteries, whorings, murders, thefts, greedy desires, wickednesses, deceit, indecency, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.  

Those who still live according to the flesh have uncircumcised hearts, they have callous hearts, hardened hearts, hearts of stone. 

Those who do not yield "all their heart" unto Elohim, through His Son, are those who keep their hearts far away from Him - Isaiah 29:13, And Yahuah says, “Because this people has drawn near with its mouth, and with its lips they have esteemed Me, and it has kept its heart far from Me, and their fear of Me has become a command of men that is taught!

Matthew 15:8, ‘This people draw near to Me with their mouth, and respect Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

Mark 7:6, And He answering, said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it has been written, ‘This people respect Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. 

But those who have surrendered "all their heart," those whose "hearts are steadfast with Him," are living a life of overcoming, for they "are true to His covenant" (Psalm 78:37), their "eyes watch My ways" (Proverbs 23:26), they no longer live according to the "teachings" which are but the "commands of men" (Isaiah 29:13,  Matthew 15:8, Mark 7:6).

 

 When the people of Israel live up to their calling as Israel (Overcomer's), their hearts are circumcised, (Deut 30) they keep the Torah (Law) as proof of their love towards Elohim (Almighty God)

Rom. 2:26-29, so, if an uncircumcised one watches over the righteousnesses of the Torah, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned as circumcision? And the uncircumcised by nature, who perfects the Torah, shall judge you who notwithstanding letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the Torah! For he is not a Yehudite (Jew) who is so outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. But a Yehudite (Jew) is he who is so inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in Spirit, not literally, whose praise is not from men but from Elohim.

1 John 5:2-3, by this we know that we love the children of Elohim, when we love Elohim and guard His commands. For this is the love for Elohim, that we guard His commands, and His commands are not heavy, …). 

Elohim demands "all your heart."  

Deut. 4:29-30, “But from there you shall seek Yahuah your Elohim, and shall find, when you search for Him with all your heart and with all your being. “In your distress, when all these words shall come upon you in the latter days, then you shall return to Yahuah your Elohim and shall obey His voice.

Deut. 6:4-9, “Hear, O Israel: Yahuah our Elohim, Yahuah is one! “And you shall love Yahuah your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might. “And these Words g which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart, and you shall impress them upon your children, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up, and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. “And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. 

Jeremiah 29:13, Joel 2:12, “Yet even now,” declares Yahuah, “turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”

Matthew 22:37, And Yahusha said to him, “ ‘You shall love Yahuah your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind.’  

Mark 12:29-30, And Yahusha answered him, “The first of all the commands is, ‘Hear, O Israel, Yahuah our Elohim, Yahuah is one. ‘And you shall love Yahuah your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first command.). 

Yahuah searches our heart – Jeremiah 17:10, “I, Yahuah, search the heart; I try the kidneys, and give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds. 

Give all your heart to Him that is the Creator of the Heavens and the earth, Yahuah.

 

 

 

Search my heart, O YAH