With Heart And Mind

 

There is about 12 inches in
Between my heart and mind.
Yet that can be a vast distance
When truth is hard to find.
 
My heart is fixed upon the Lord,
My mind seems fixed on me.
That is the conflict that I face
With regularity.
 
My heart knows that I need His grace,
Yet each day when I rise
I tell myself I’ll do better.
Then fail. What a surprise.
 
I keep forgetting it’s not me
Who turns me from the sin,
But is, instead, His loving grace
Where true change can begin.
 
I think my mind is catching on
To what my heart knows well.
Both heart and mind must be the place
Wherein we let Him dwell.
 
We each have a choice we must make:
Though just inches apart,
Our mind must acknowledge the truth
That we hold in our heart.
 
Matthew 22:37 
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
 
Psalm 118:8 
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.