- Heart Live
Psalm 69:32
The humble shall see this, and be glad:
And your heart shall live that seek God.
A conditional promise: if you seek God, then your heart shall live. Life is what we all want; life is what we need; the inner life lived in the heart is what every human desires; we all want, need and desire our inner life to be connected to a good, kind, and loving God. It is that connection that makes the heart live. Everyone, knowingly or unknowingly, consciously or unconsciously, is seeking something to fill that “God-shaped vacuum” within. When God fills that empty spot with His life the person is truly alive. That empty spot is the human spirit, which is born dead and stays dead until born from above by Baptism and faith. That spot is where the Holy Spirit of Jesus resides and influences the soul and the body with God’s life.
If a person is truly seeking God, the Lord will come to him and create new life in his spirit. That is the promise. In one sense, all humans seek God although they do not know whom they are seeking or what they are missing. But in another sense, no human truly seeks God because he or she cannot and does not want to: all persons are dead to God (can do nothing) and are enemies of God (do not like Him). If one is truly seeking the true God, the Holy Spirit through the Gospel is already moving him or her. From man’s point of view he is “seeking;” from God’s point of view he is “being drawn.”
Thus, if we seek to live, really live, we will seek God. God Himself plants that desire in our hearts; then God’s Love and Grace are drawing us. Those of us who have already been found and drawn to God through faith in Christ are still seeking God, that is, God is moving us to want to know Him better. This seeking leads to real heart living (“your heart shall live”).
“I seek God, then I live” is the same as “God draws me, then God lives in me.” God’s life lived in my heart: this is the promise. Jesus’s resurrection guarantees it.