You see a physician maybe once or twice a year. They measure your blood pressure. They make a diagnosis based on one snapshot, perhaps prescribing their favorite medication.
Maybe they do bloodwork once a year. They make a diagnosis based on the one snapshot.
Your blood pressure varies over the day based on many factors. Your blood analysis varies also. Maybe your last meal before the fast included something you don’t normally eat that drives up cholesterol or triglycerides.
Jesus also observed the heart. But a different kind of heart. The heart as center of emotion, faith, empathy.
Do you monitor your own heart—the one that concerned Jesus? Maybe just a snapshot checkup after a religious experience?
Maybe we need something for the heart like a continuous glucose monitor where we can check in several times a day to see where we’re OK and where we’re slipping.
Faith Venture 
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