From Justina Suwa
The Perfect Heart
In The Perfect Heart, Tina Suwa moves from the physical heart to the spiritual one, exposing its deceit, asking what it truly beats for, laying out the portrait of an evil heart in the story of Nabal, and introducing a daily "perfect heart test" every believer can take. It ends where every honest study of the heart must end: at God's promise of a new heart.
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About this book
Before we can talk about anything else, we have to talk about the heart. Not as a figure of speech, but as the actual centre of a person, the seat of life and strength, the place where mind, soul, spirit and emotion are bound together. God set it inside a cage of bone because He knew what would happen if it were left exposed. And when Scripture wants to describe who you really are underneath the face you show the world, it goes to the heart. The Perfect Heart begins with the physical organ, its faithful labour and the quiet neglect that so often destroys it, and then turns to the deeper subject: the spiritual heart, which has no cardiologist but the Holy Spirit and no chart but the Word of God held up against our own lives. Writing with a pastor's honesty, Tina Suwa refuses to let the reader assume their heart is healthier than it is. The physical heart rarely shouts before trouble takes hold, and neither does the spiritual one. This is a searching book, but not a condemning one. Its invitation is the psalmist's prayer: "Search me, O God, and know my heart." It is written for the believer who has never stopped to examine what is actually happening underneath the good behaviour and the church attendance, and it closes under a blessing spoken over a heart being made new, with the promise of the One who sits on the throne: "Behold, I make all things new." The same God who searched Jeremiah's generation for a perfect heart is searching still. He has not lowered the standard, and He has not withdrawn the promise.