The heart, in effect, is the whole person in all of his or her distinctive human activity as a thinking, planning, willing, feeling, worshiping, socially interacting being. And, of course, when the person is not living according to God's will, it is the heart that is described as darkened, rebellious, callous, unfeeling, or idolatrous. It is within the heart that God works; hence the human heart may be tender and soft or as hard as stone ( Eze 11:19 ).
Let not mercy and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart and so find favor...
This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter what has been hidden...
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the...