God spoke to me Sunday night….
Now before anyone calls the men in white coats, please consider that I think God speaks to us all the time – we just don’t take the time to listen. God usually speaks to me through music or a combination of music and dreams (probably because that is the only time I slow my mind down enough to hear Him.
Anyway, back on topic. Seems like everywhere I look now-days I see something about “heart healthy” habits. It may be nutrition, may be exercise or lifestyle choices but we seem to have an ongoing obsession with being “heart healthy”. This past weekend God had me thinking about being “heart healthy” from His point of view.
I was talking with someone and the conversation briefly turned to a comment about someone viewed as being “two-faced” and a back-stabber. I just passed it over and didn’t dwell on it until early the next morning I had a dream. In the dream I was seeing something kind of like one of those old commercials about smoking. In the scene, someone was showing me a shriveled, dried up, blackened and hard mass with a caption “your heart when looking through the eyes of man”. The scene then shifted to a bright, plump and pink mass radiating warmth – here the caption was “your heart when looking through the eyes of God”.
I think it was clear that God was sending a message to me that I need to be very careful how I look at other people – to remember that every single person is created by Him for a specific person; that everyone is useful and loved even when they aren’t being very lovable. This attitude really promotes a healthy heart.
