Heart
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.
Psalms 30
1
I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
2
Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
3
Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
4
Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name.
5
For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
6
As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."
7
You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
8
I cried to you, Yahweh. To Yahweh I made supplication:
9
"What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
10
Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper."
11
You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,
12
To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever! For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
