Heart vs. Mind

"The issue of truth is an issue of the heart before it is an issue of the head" – John Piper

For those of us that are searching for truth and meaning in our lives might be taken aback by the above statement. We like to think that if we could use our head to be purely rational that we would find Truth. However, this is an impossibility. What many of us don’t realize is that our mind is a slave to the passions of the heart. We like to think that we are rational, but when we come face to face with the truth, our passions capture our mind to spin the truth to serve our desires in order to not see the obvious truth. If we truly want to know the truth so that we may fulfill our purpose, we must start with examining our hearts and realize that our Heart is in love with sin and darkness. Our infatuation for darkness is extremely powerful and can only be remedied by God’s piercing light into our hearts. Listen to the words of our Lord in John 3:19-20:

This is the judgment, that the Light (or truth) has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

Men will never be committed to the truth until their heart is changed to fall out of love with darkness and in love with the Light of the World. “You must be born again,” are Jesus’ words to the solution to man’s darkness. Only He can save us and change our hearts to follow Him. May the Lord open and continue to open our hearts to see the truth, that He alone is the source of all truth, wisdom, and knowledge.