The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? “I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve."” Jeremiah 17:9-10 NIV
Pastor Watson quoted the above today on FB. I was dealing with a problem of someone saying the right things, but in the end, not doing them. I think that probably qualifies as that "deceitful heart." Our hearts can be so deceitful that we won't know what's in them.....only the Lord can understand it. I feel like that some days....I can't get a handle on my motives sometimes of why I do what I do. I have to ask the Lord to show me. I know this...we don't get a reward for "thinking" the right things....or "feeling" the right things. We get a reward for "doing" the right things. This is something to think on soberly...because part of the deceit is to believe because I think a certain way or feel a certain way, I'm actually doing it. I can remember being in prayer classes where we never prayed. All we did was talk about it. It felt like at the end we had done something...but we had not.
Lord examine my heart and mind...show me where I am deceived. In Jesus name, Amen
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