Cut to the Heart

I was reading in Acts chapter 2 this morning and found that after Peter spoke to the crowd it says the people were "cut to the heart" -NIV. It jumped out at me and I thought about what that really means both in that context and in our lives today. Yesterday I blogged about God shaking the very core of our being. This fits right along with that. You see, the people that were gathered around Peter to hear what he was saying didn't simply come to an intellectual decision that caused them to believe in Jesus, although that was a perhaps part of it. But, it was deeper than that. to cut to the heart means to, you guessed it, go to the very core of our being. The words that Peter spoke were from the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit did what only the Holy Spirit can do; penetrate all of the layers of protection that we put up to hide who we are, and speak to us on such a level that only the creator has access to. It is a place where no games are played, no hard questions are avoided and truth and love are spoken. Wow! We have an awesome God. It is my prayer today that we can both have a "cut to the heart" experience with God, and that the Holy Spirit would speak through us into the heart of another. Have a great day!