The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
“I, the Lord, search the heart and examine the mind.”
Jeremiah 17:9-10a
“Know thyself.” This was an idiom the Ancient Greeks would often say to each other in the first century. The famous philosopher Socrates expounded on this further: The unexamined life is not worth living. What was true to the Greeks has always been true to the people of God. “The heart is deceitful above all things…” Those who claim to know themselves fully and are in need of no further examination are those who probably know themselves the least and require the most self-examination. This is why I was excited to have an Enneagram coach visit our house church this past Sunday to introduce us to one of the ways we can better search our hearts. In many ways, the spiritual journey is one of examining, exploring, and discovering one’s self. In our pursuit of God, we pursue our own hearts.
