July 12, 2025, the 193rd day of 2025
The State of Our Heart
God sees the heart, not just with eyes that see, but with eyes that discern, that sees and knows the deepest part of our being.... View MoreJuly 12, 2025, the 193rd day of 2025
The State of Our Heart
God sees the heart, not just with eyes that see, but with eyes that discern, that sees and knows the deepest part of our being.
Nothing can be hidden from God. God knows our thoughts and the intentions of our heart.
We may be able to hide things from others. We may even fool ourselves. But we will never fool God.
So, we need to be honest with God. We need to pray to Him in truth, knowing we are fully exposed to Him. It is the only way to really talk with God, and not just talk at God.
There is freedom in knowing that we cannot hide anything from God. We can get right to the issues, not try to avoid them or cover them up. We can be completely honest with God.
But even knowing this, we may still try to hide sin from God, because we are hiding it from oursleves, calling it something other than sin.
We may call it a choice or a right. If we are being convicted about it, we may call it a mistake, a miscalculation or some such thing.
Renaming sin is something the world is good at, because Satan is good at it, and he has taught it to the world.
But we need to identify sin in us, as sin. And admit that the desire to rename it to something more acceptable, is self-deception, a lie, which is another sin.
Sometimes we know sin is sin, but we don't want to deal with it, or the consequences of it, so we ignore it, as if it didn't happen. Then we hope it has been covered in a blanket, "I am sorry for my sins," while not actually addressing it with God.
Other times we seek to bury our sin, hide it away in our hearts, as if it were some precious treasure. But God still sees it for the vile thing it is.
God will first try to reveal it to us. I say "try", because we may refuse to see. We can be very bull-headed when it comes to seeing our own sins.
It is not all that surprising because we often cannot even see our own weaknesses, much less our sins.
If revealing our sin to us doesn't work, God will discipline us. He will not let it fester in us for long. Because holding onto sin in our heart will cause a rift between us and God.
God has warned us that He chastens His own. So we should be more concerned if we can continue on in sin undisciplined, than when He disciplines us.
If, instead of confronting the problem we have with sin, we avoid God, we may not realize it, but we are asking for Him to put His all-searching spotlight on it.
If we have learned to trust God and come to Him with all of our issues, we won't stay away long from His presence. It may be the merest moments, but it will seem an endless rift when we really love God.
In the moments we choose our sin over God, we will either drift farther away from Him, or come to realize that nothing is worth losing our fellowship with the Father, and we will come to Him and lay our hearts bare.
But when we are starting out in Christ, that takes time to understand. We may think holding some things back from God is acceptable.
We think in human terms or "our space" and "God's space". It takes us a bit to realize that it is all God's space.
Whether we like it or not, nothing is hid from God. The sooner we come to realize this, the better our fellowship with Him will be.
We cannot put up a "do not enter" on any part of our heart, and bar Jesus from entering there. He sees through all barriers. All the barrier does is to cut off fellowship with God, He still knows it all.
"If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear. But certainly God has heard me; He has attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, Who has not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me!"
Psalms 66:18-20
Stay strong! Keep your heart open to God and let Him search you to reveal to you what you have hid even from yourself.
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