Off The Top Of My Head

Our heads are filled with many things, education, ideas, the past, the future, lunch and general every day things that vie for our attention. If we were to open our heads, the things at the top would be the easiest to get to. Similar to where the phrase “off the top of my head” came from.

It is important to know that we know Jesus not just in our heads, but in our hearts.

Proverbs 3:5-6 tells us to “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.”

We need to take head knowledge and apply it to our hearts – Proverbs 4:23 tells us: Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. When we apply God’s Word to our hearts, it becomes real. This will drive our minds and emotions toward the truth of God’s Word and will become heart knowledge.

Heart Knowledge

Jonathan Edwards from his sermon Divine and Supernatural Light has a great illustration to make this point using honey. He says, “your mind can know honey is sweet, people can tell you it’s sweet, you’ve read books about it, but if you haven’t actually tasted it, you know with your head, but not with your heart. When you actually taste it, you experience it for yourself, you know it in a full way, and you can know it in your heart.”

Knowing with your heart however, is not to be confused by being led with your emotions. While we learn things with our head “head knowledge”, we must have “heart knowledge” to go along with it. When it comes to the Gospel, we need to learn in our heads what Jesus has done for us, but more importantly, we need to learn this in our hearts.

Knowing with our heart is being present with the Lord. As the photographer of our family, I have spent many hours behind a camera taking pictures and saving memories. If I only experienced things through a camera lens however, I would never get the full effect of being present in those special moments. Jesus wants us to fully give our hearts to Him and be present in Him. In return, we can know Him more deeply and build our life long relationship with Him.

Deu 4:29 – gives us an important revelation: Should we seek the Lord with some of our heart? No, we must seek Him with all of our heart, and then what, we might find him? No we WILL find Him. When we seek God with our entire heart we absolutely find Him and all His benefits to us.

God’s love should be so real to us that we would see ourselves the way He sees us, through His son. If we knew God truly wanted us to be generous, we would joyfully give our money, time, and possessions back to Him and anyone in need. Especially because He first loved us –1 John 4:19.

Off The Top Of My Head

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