If true worship were a road, it would have two idolatrous ditches: intellectualism and emotionalism. As sinners we inevitably end up in one of these ditches, bent toward the head or toward the heart, and apart from Christ. The heart is deceptively wicked and the head is full of smoke. Either of these alone leads one dreadfully unsatisfied.
The Christian, however, isn’t stuck in a loop bouncing from the head to the heart; choosing between some sort of intellectualism or emotionalism. Jesus came and gave us new hearts and His mind. And now, by grace, we are called to employ both our head and our heart completely.
“And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. “ (Mark 12:30)
Worship, for believers, is found at the beautiful union of strength and soul, head and heart. To worship God is to have a mind set solely on Him and a heart that is full to the brim with desire for Him alone.
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