It’s important for us to know the difference between a righteous heart and a broken heart. We have a righteous heart when we are free from sin, and we have a broken heart when we are enslaved by sin. The more righteous in heart we are, the more we experience the spirit of wisdom. The spirit of wisdom allows us to be repulsed by sin and satisfied with peace. When we are broken hearted, we suffer from voidance an become unable to be satisfied with peace.
Our heart is where our desires come from. Our desires are our issues of life from the Father. Life is instruction (Proverbs 4:13). The scripture teaches us to keep our heart with diligence because from it comes our issues of life (Proverbs 4:23). If we are not careful, our instructions will become destructions. The Messiah taught us that our hearts function like our eyes. If we rest in darkness, just like our eyes, our heart will adjust to that darkness (Matthew 6:22). When our hearts have adjusted to darkness, just like our eyes, we will be blinded by the light at first.
When the Father did away with kings, the Father sent the Son to enrich the instructions that he wrote on the tables of our hearts (Luke 13:9). We now have the prophetic ability to receive instruction directly from the Father (Luke 10:22). We can’t know the Father, and Father can’t know us when we don’t share his righteous heart condition (Luke 13:27). In the spiritual realm, our heart is our eye because it is how we see ourselves before God. The Father looks on our hearts (1 Samuel 16:7).
The scriptures teach us how to maintain a righteous heart condition. Christ taught us that emotional awareness is the light of the body (Matthew 6:22). The scriptures teach us that sustained peace powers light. If we are righteous and want to remain righteous, we must hold to the understanding of instruction. The scriptures describe our righteous understanding as a path, and instruction is life. This is why the way to wisdom is called the Path of Life in the scriptures.
We know that the understanding of instruction is a peaceful path because it leads us to wisdom. The scripture teaches us that all paths to wisdom are peaceful (Proverbs 3:17). The amount of wisdom we have increases if we remain on the peaceful path to wisdom. The scriptures teach us this saying, “the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more until the perfect day (Proverbs 4:18). When we reach wisdom, we have an emotional awareness that is perfect.
We suffer from a spiritual breach when we are perverted away from the Path of Life (Proverbs 15:4). A breach of spirit causes us to suffer from spiritual darkness. Spiritual darkness is spiritual unawareness and can lead to spiritual death (Proverbs 4:19). In the spiritual realm, sin is the disturbance of peace. When we tolerate sin, it hardens our heart so that we are no longer disturbed by it.
The Father told Cane that if he did not do well, sin would be his gate keeper (Genesis 4:7). It was like the Father told Cane that he wrote a self-destruction program on hour hearts to prevent us. Christ warned us of this saying, “Truly, Truly, I say to you that whoever commits sin is a servant of sin. To be broken hearted means that we are no longer free in heart. It is the same as being broken like a horse to be rode and reigned over.
When we are broken hearted sin enslaves us with voidance. We are able to be satisfied with peace when we are righteous in heart. We can sit with peace and want for nothing when we are wise. When we are broken hearted, we become unable to feel the satisfaction of peace. We begin to suffer from an endless desire, even a heart ache that we know as depression. When we leave the Path of Life, we find ourselves in an endless state of consumption (Haggai 1:6).
When we are broken hearted, we suffer from iniquity (i.e., poor judgment). We can even become wicked (i.e., intentionally unjust). When we are broken hearted, our hearts become deceitful and we become fooled. This understanding is why Christ said we will be in danger of hell fire if we call our brother fool (Matthew 5:22). Christ said this because we are either unaware of foolery, or we want hells fire for our brother.
When we are broken hearted, we are in a very serious spiritual condition. Christ said that our light is darkness when we have a broken heart (Matthew 6:22). In this condition, we find peace in things that are destroying us, and we are repulsed by the things that will save our lives. This is how sin enslaves us when we become hard hearted. Sin causes us to chase it for peace, but the peace we get is short-term. When we return, sin requires a little bit more until we depart from evil or get be consumed by it (Amos 4:11-12).
