The heart means love. A good heart means love to the Lord and to the neighbor, while a hard or stony heart means the love of self or the world -- riches and things. When the psalmist asks the Lord to search his heart, he wants the Lord to see what it is that he loves. And we are what we love. What we eat may form our earthly body, but it's only temporary, what we love forms our spiritual body, beautiful or ugly as we have chosen. It's interesting to note that the first multi-cellular motion of our embryo is the pulsating that starts in a twist of blood vessel that is to become our heart, and the last motion of our natural body is our heartbeat. It is there for all of our natural life. And of course there is a beating heart in our spiritual bodies when we come to put them on.

4516. “你们连累我, 使我在这地的居民中有了臭名” 表那些属古教会的人憎恶他们. 这从 “连累我, 使我有臭名” 和 “这地的居民” 的含义清楚可知: “连累我, 使我有臭名” 是指让他们感到憎恶; “这地的居民” 在此是指那些属古教会的人, “地” 表示教会 (参看566, 662, 1066, 1067, 1262, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118末尾, 2928, 3355, 4447节), 因而 “这地的居民” 是指那些属教会的人, 在此是指那些属古教会的人, 因为古教会仍继续存在于迦南地的某些民族当中. 直到这个古教会完全灭亡之后, 教会的代表才建立在源于雅各的百姓或人民当中. 这一事实也由雅各的后代不被允许进入迦南地, 直到那地的居民罪孽满盈, 如创世记 (15:16) 所述. 因为在前教会荒废之前, 新教会不会得以建立