Jesus is a very good heart radiologist. His words and ways, His actions and attitudes, His beliefs and behaviors seem to indicate that He is always discerning, identifying, and eventually directly addressing the core issues preventing connections with Him and His Father's purposes... determining how He would go there, get there, stay there, and win there in the lives of others for the Kingdom, regardless of response. Watch Him and you see a Kingdom connector.

Now here is the scary part: He lives in us.

Must be nice to see right through the masks, disguises, motives, and defense tactics to go right for the spiritual jugular every time! As the son of God, Jesus works with some advanced imaging technology. But with Him living inside of us, seeking to scan hearts though us, God's man is both equipped by the Holy Spirit and called by God to become a heart specialist. God's DREAM for you is clinical: he wants you to become a heart doctor like Jesus.

One of the tools cardiologists depend on is a heart scan. These are magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomography scans that are especially helpful in seeing the heart. The big "win" with these medical technologies for both patient and doctor is the doctor's ability to:

• See small structures or blockages.
• Peer into valves and chambers.
• Assess the overall structure and shape of the heart.
• Look directly at the coronary arteries feeding into the heart.

It’s all about detection. These scans reveal the size, shape, condition, and position of the heart. That's exactly what Jesus is after spiritually:

• To see where the spiritual or emotional blockages are, clogging someone's ability to believe.
• To peer into the valves and chambers of their experiences.
• To assess the overall structure of the character these experiences produced.
• To look directly at the truths or lies presently feeding into their beliefs about Him and His plan for their lives.

It's non-invasive. He takes pictures. He shows them what He saw. He identifies the core problems. He helps a person to see a true picture of themselves and the problem. He offered Himself and His way as the solution. In the end, the patient chooses to accept the diagnosis or reject it—to pursue spiritual health or put it off for later.

Jesus knew what deeply affected people.

He appreciated the fragile nature of the human heart and with great discernment and discretion, knowledge and understanding, and, above all, love, He made it His aim to connect with it. The heart—biblically as opposed to physically—meant the center of a persons beliefs, passions, emotions, will, drives, ambitions, desires, and spiritual hard wiring.

He knows what is residing—in painful, prideful, and fearful forms—below the water line. The good news is that He wants to give you His ability to see those issues and possess the right motive to want to see them in others, which is love. Real discernment of people without Christ-centered love for them is not possible. Otherwise, you have an agenda. This is a biblical non-negotiable in following Jesus’ footsteps in becoming a good spiritual cardiologist: