How About Your Heart?
“How about your heart? Is it right with God? That’s the thing that counts today.” I often find myself singing James Blackwood’s signature song, and I ask myself, “How is my heart? Is it right with God?” I am so grateful that God knows my heart. This could be a great or a scary thing but I hope He sees my heart toward Him so that, even when I make mistakes, He knows it wasn’t willful. I hope I never get to the point where I think I know better than God. I see many people who act that way and there is great danger in doing so.
God is merciful. His mercies are new every morning, but He is also a God of justice. He is a God who will punish disobedience. Human nature doesn’t want to obey. We want to do what we want to do but God knows what we don’t. He requires obedience for a reason. Without faith, it is impossible to please Him. Will He see faith in me when He returns? I certainly hope so.
Although the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, I ask God to search me and try me and see if there is any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. I do this in fear and trembling as I may not like what God reveals. I can be pretty strong-willed myself but, at the end of the day, nothing matters but knowing that my Lord is satisfied with me.
Thank You, Father, for Your love which continues to reach out showing me that straight and narrow path so that I don’t wander. Please let me know if my heart is not 100% right with You. Amen.
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