Our Hearts are Known

Often when I pray, I feel compelled to not pray - or at least with words. Not because I am tired, apathetic, or feeling unworthy of loving communion with the Father (while those reasons do exist for me often), but because I believe that God knows the Heart behind my thoughts. Often words just don't add up to the level of emotion I am feeling.

The other day, I was making the long trek to DIA (Denver International Airport) to pick up a good friend that had just finished her Christmas vacation in Oklahoma. I love this drive because it is mindless. Then entire journey is highways - which affords me the opportunity to focus on other things, without having the distractions that life always serves up on a silver platter. As I began to pray - a little prayer that Matt and I have posted above our kitchen sink came to my mind.

"Now,

O Lord,

Calm me into a quietness

That heals 

And listens,

And molds my longings

And passions,

My wounds

And my wonderings

Into a more holy

And human 

Shape.

As this prayer washed over me, quietness was the only way to define my posture. I felt my entire spirit become quiet before the Lord. My thoughts slowed down, my physical body relaxed, and my soul felt more receptive to receive. 

I could sense the Lord speaking, "I know." I know your heart, I know not only your thoughts - but the emotions, the experiences, the longings, the synapses in your mind - all the things that come together to create your thoughts. I felt the truth - the truth that I am known. God, the almighty and incredibly intimate one - knows my heart fully. The Spirit intercedes for us when we do not have the words (Romans 8:26), and the Father knows our words before they ever take form on our tongue (Psalm 139:4).

We can sit before the Lord in silence and simply let him "search us and know us". This kind of prayer lets us rest in his great presence - knowing that He is reading our thoughts, our hearts, and our minds. He longs for us to understand the depths at which he intimately knows us.

He knows our HEARTS behind every fleeting THOUGHT. 

He KNOWS us, praise Him for being intimately involved with US.