How’s your heart? Mine’s just had a tune-up. New parts, my plugs unplugged, at least a five-point job. But the heart I’m really asking about is the one that feels and experiences emotion and enables relationship with others. The heart that expresses empathy, sympathy, compassion, and, most importantly, love.
The New Testament word for heart is kardia, from which we get cardiac and cardiology, words with which I am sadly too familiar. According to the Bible Study Tools’ Bible Dictionary, between the New Testament word, kardia and the Old Testament word, lebab, “heart” occurs more than 1,000 times in the Bible. That makes it the most human-related word in scripture. Continue reading