A facebook correspondent, Penny Pina, hit the motherlode today when she made the above statement. Interestingly, her surname, Pina, equates to a Hebrew word for substance as used in the Galileean town of Rosh Pina, which means, rock of substance or cornerstone. It was so named by Romanian refugees who started farming there in the mid-19th century. They established a Moshava and called their village Rosh Pina. Later Baron de Rothschild planted a garden in the village, which sits in the foothills of the Golan heights overlooking the sea of Galilee.
A great African preacher said, "we need to move our faith a little bit down (from the head) and a little to the left (the heart)". It is the heart that feeds our faith, for it the essential common ground where we commune with God. Ours is not an intellectual faith. Although it is intellectually robust, it is a faith of the heart. It has to be felt not seen. But if it does not move the heart or fill our being with a revelation of God, whatever is conceived within us will be still-born and die. We feed our faith through the heart, just as we feed our bodies through the stomach or our intellect through the mind. Thus the same preacher said, "In our hearts are two dogs - a black and white dog. It is the one we feed most that thrives."
The same place of the heart also becomes our stone of substance. For Jesus, the rock of ages, is a stone of stumbling to those who deny Him, but the chief cornerstone to those who believe. It is therefore, not just about believing something. The heart must knit with God in Christ and find in Him the keys to life and salvation. He is the bread of life. He is the light of the world. He is the wellspring that quenches our deepest thirsts. He is the fountain of God. He is the source of the river of life, who gives life and meaning to all who are touched by Him. If we want to feed our faith, we must allow the Holy Spirit to increase our knowledge and grasp of the Living Christ, the essence of all life.
He is the Living Word, who created the rolling spheres and cast the stars into space. He formed the worlds and by Him all things consist. He is the light that transformed the dark void into the created universe. He is also the light that will transform your heart into a tabernacle of God. Behold He stands at the door of your heart. If you open He will come in and sup with you, so that you may never again hunger or thirst, because He has the words of eternal life. He who has the Son, has life ... and in Him is the light of every man.
(c) Peter Eleazar @ www.4u2live.net
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