Your heart is very important to God. He is all about your heart and what is in it. Ephesians 1:18 says, "I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened..." Enlightenment means to give light to, to exist, to be clear to all. So what God is saying is that he wants your heart to clearly know who He is....His nature, His power, and His desires. He longs for a commitment from your heart! Proverbs 3:6 (AMP) says, "In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and he will make straight and plain your paths." So getting to know God helps you in your life. You can never feel alone or lost because God says, "know me and i'll help ya!" But it all starts with your heart. Your heart is just like soil and so what ever is planted in your heart will produce fruit in your life. If you have bad things that have been sown into your heart, well then bad fruit will be produced. God can remove those bad things from your heart and he replaces them with his love and with healing. And then we need to continually be guarding our hearts so that we will always produce good fruit in our lives.
