The Heart of the Matter...
It's so easy to get focused on external things. My hair, my body, my smell, my relationships, my job, my status, my volunteering, my "life"... But I am reminded today that God looks at my heart. Through all of the things I do. Through all the things I see. Through every word I say... What's in my heart?
It only takes a day to forget that I am a new creation in Christ. A day at a time. Because it is a slow fade...It sneaks up on me. But if I forget everything else and get to the heart of the matter, I am reminded that the thing that matters is not my hair. It's not my body. It's not my smell, relationships, job, status, community involvement or any other thing that matters. It's my heart.
2 Cor 13:5 Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you--unless, of course, you fail the test?
I want to daily remind myself who I am at the very core of my being. God help me live a life of love, driven by my love for you! Help me push aside temptations that follow me. Thank you Lord for your grace!
Psalm 139
1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. 5 You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. 7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. ...
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
I Love you Lord. That is what matters. At the core of me, I want to do right because I love you.
It only takes a day to forget that I am a new creation in Christ. A day at a time. Because it is a slow fade...It sneaks up on me. But if I forget everything else and get to the heart of the matter, I am reminded that the thing that matters is not my hair. It's not my body. It's not my smell, relationships, job, status, community involvement or any other thing that matters. It's my heart.
2 Cor 13:5 Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you--unless, of course, you fail the test?
I want to daily remind myself who I am at the very core of my being. God help me live a life of love, driven by my love for you! Help me push aside temptations that follow me. Thank you Lord for your grace!
Psalm 139
1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. 5 You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. 7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. ...
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
I Love you Lord. That is what matters. At the core of me, I want to do right because I love you.
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