Speak Your Heart

“For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”-Romans 10:10 (NKJV)

I do not believe that the Christian should ever possess an empty-headed faith. God gave us brains! Our faith is reasonable and will stand the test of the skeptic’s attacks. At the same time, Christian truth can never be reduced to mere intellectual conjecture. If we treat the Bible simply as a source of information, we’ve missed its true intent, that of transformation. The Bible is a book written to the heart!

Jesus and the witness of Scripture are clear that what is in the heart will eventually come out of the mouth, whether profanity or blessing. Also true is that a confession of Christ with the mouth is worthless without a belief in Christ in the heart. I have in my library the study Bible of a dear seminary professor. Next to the above verse, he wrote “the heart, not the head.” This coming from a doctorate who was well-versed in his theology. You can study Christian truth for ages, but when salvation comes as God’s precious gift, there is no doubt but that there is an uneasy spirit in the heart over sin and a great rejoicing in forgiveness. There is truly a change of heart.