April 2025 - Schedule a Heart Test

Recently, I became acquainted with electrophysiology studies, which are tests used to evaluate the heart’s electrical system and to check for abnormal heart rhythms. As you may know, natural electrical impulses coordinate contractions of different parts of the heart. This creates the heartbeat, or heart rhythm, and keeps blood flowing the way it should.

A doctor may recommend an EP study for four reasons:

• To find the source of a heart rhythm problem.
• To evaluate symptoms, such as dizziness, fainting, weakness, or palpitation, seeking to determine if they might be caused by a rhythm problem.
• To get information related to abnormally fast or slow heart rhythms.
• To help decide the best treatment for fixing the problems.

I have often prayed Psalm 139:23-24, “Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.” Now, I have a name for this prayer: a spiritual electrophysiology test! The spiritual EP is needed because everything we do comes from our hearts. So, through this test, we evaluate the source of our spiritual heart rhythm.

In Matthew 15:18-19, Jesus says, “But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. For out of the heart come evil thoughts – murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.” Our hearts hold our greatest passions and loves, which drive all of life. The whys behind our actions and reactions are found in the recesses of our spiritual hearts.

“Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.” Ps 139:23-24

The spiritual EP is used to get vital information about the condition of our hearts. God sees clearly into every corner of our hearts. “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind,” Jeremiah 17:10a tells us.

The spiritual EP is also used to identify the best treatment for problems in our hearts, and that usually involves surrender. As a response to his love, we can choose to surrender our heartbeats to him and live for him. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind,” we read in Matthew 22:37.

The more we love the Lord, the more we surrender and the more we desire that “the words of our mouths and the meditation of our hearts be pleasing in his sight, our Lord, our Rock and Redeemer” (Ps. 19:14, emphasis added). When was the last time you had a spiritual electrophysiology study done? Have you followed the Great Physician’s instructions? It is my prayer and desire that we all have strong hearts that beat in rhythm with the Lord’s.

Source: Electrophysiological Studies, Johns Hopkins Medicine