Valentines Day and Hollywood like to glamorize the heart. But the truth is that it has a nasty tendency to harden. The busy traffic that traverses across it as well as the cares and heartaches that inevitably come all tend to make our hearts calloused. If left untended, our hearts gradually grow brittle. As our hearts grow hardened, they become impervious to God’s word as well as His efforts to reach out to us.
God does not look tend our heart. That is something we must do. In fact, God tells us to break up the fallow ground of our heart. That means we are continually softening our heart and making it receptive to receive whatever God has for us.
Hollywood would have us believe that we have no control over our heart. If we “fall out of love” with someone, then it is beyond our control. If we no longer care about someone, then we are not to blame. But God makes it clear that we are to be the masters of our heart. We must irrigate it so it is soft and pliable.
We cannot determine when God might choose to speak to us. However, we can prepare our heart so we are ready to respond when He does.