Have you seen the movies where the patient is in surgery, lying on the medical table and the heart monitor is tracking their heart beats? There comes a critical moment when the heart monitor reads a straight line, signifying the heart is no longer beating. The doctor orders the nurses to go ahead and perform an electrical shock treatment, hoping to restart the heart. This shock is intended to revive the patient.
This is what God does to our spiritual heart — electrical shock. We were dead, But due to power of God, we are made alive. We are made alive in Christ when we put our faith in Him. Recently, I have noted so many references made about the heart in the Bible. One verse found in Matthew 22:36-38 states, 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment.
I never noticed before that mind was the last item mentioned in the verse. And heart comes first. What I take this to mean is that it is essential for your heart to first trust the Lord. It’s the transformation of the heart that draws you closer to God. God works on your heart as part of the working out of your salvation with fear and trembling, as noted in Philippians 2:12. He softens the heart so we can better determine His will and allows us to listen to His voice more clearly. Now His voice can reach us in many different ways: a still small voice speaking to you or a Sunday morning sermon, maybe it’s a song on the radio, a glorious sunrise, interacting with our family members, friends or work associates. The means by which God can relate to us is boundless, but it’s our heart that needs to be in tune with God to hear His voice. Once the transformation of the heart occurs, your soul and mind will be renewed as well.
I have been thinking about Billy Graham and his evangelical conferences that would draw thousands of people to hear him speak, but you know those people chose to go to the stadium to hear a word from God, and they did. Their hearts were waiting in anticipation of hearing God speak to them and God showed up in a mighty way. — electrical shock. Mr. Graham was an instrument used by God to speak truth to the masses. God was the power supply providing the power for the electrical shock that moved people from death unto life. By the way, do you know the angels rejoice for every person who receives life in Jesus Christ? I hope we always hear the angels sing.
I used to think I needed to have all the answers to be able to lead someone to Christ. Relying on arguments to prove the existence of God and some logical explanation to substantiate my faith, but now I realize that having faith in God is mysterious. Faith, love, hope are not necessarily tangible things to be proved by science, but these things are real. Jesus explained to Nicodemus, a prominent religious leader of His time, that being born again is like the wind. You don’t know where the wind comes from or where it is going, but you feel and know its presence. Honestly, if God wasn’t mysterious, He wouldn’t be all that exciting to follow. So I choose to put my faith in a God who is mysterious, all-powerful and all-knowing, whose ways are so much higher than my own.
The spiritual heart is also a mystery. All I know is that we only need to turn towards God, and He will come and meet us where we are at, and He will administer the electric shock we need to give us life with the promise of never leaving us. What do we do when we receive that electric shock from God? God has a purpose for each and every one of us and a plan designed by Him just for you. You just need to listen with your new heart. Don’t underestimate God’s power. Look at the Sun, He formed it in a ball in the palm of His hands, then spoke a word and lit it on fire. This is the same power that is at work in your heart! If you have received your Electric Shock, then watch out because you are on fire!
Discussions to make God known 