God Sees Our Heart

https://odb.org/MY/2022/07/03/he-knows-my-heart

When we make a genuine mistake, apologise and try to make amends but people nevertheless accuse us of having done so intentionally, only God knows our heart intention and thus this is not an argument we can win. The Lord doesn’t judge by what He sees with His eyes or what He hears with His ears but He will judge with righteousness and justice. He is able to see deep within us into our hearts. Whether we were sincere and genuine.

There lies the crux of the matter. The situation we will likely face however is the converse of what was illustrated in the ODB example today. Rather than us having made a genuine mistake and not having the intention to cut the queue and accused of having intended that, it is more of us behaving in a manner that is outwardly acceptable but inwardly insincere, fake and false.

In conformity to socially acceptable behaviour, in fact socially acceptable “Christian” behaviour, we may do certain things or take certain action to flow with the crowd. Unfortunately our hearts are not really in those things. For example, we may give to a beggar to show people our generosity but not with the intention to help the beggar. Or we participate in a program to help the poor because everyone is participating but our heart is not with the poor.

The thing is while we can fool human beings, we can’t fool God and a lot of these things only become really meaningful to us and to God if our actions and hearts are aligned. To God as He can see our hearts, what really matters is the intention of our hearts. Are we real, genuine and sincere? Do we really believe in the cause? Or are we just flowing with what everyone is doing? I think this is important to God because if we are genuine and sincere, there will be more to come in the sense that God will open more opportunities for us to do such noble things for more people. For example, when we give and we give genuinely, the Lord will open more avenues for us to give. Granted our resources are finite, but there will be different groups we can give to because in the end, the actual amount is not as pertinent as the heart to help. We can give smaller amounts to help more people and enjoy the blessings that come with blessing more people which may include the ability to give even more!

Therefore let us examine ourselves this morning as we worship the Lord in church. Let us do things with sincerity and genuine love. Remember God sees our heart. Make sure our hearts are always real before God and man. Have a blessed Sunday in church everyone and may He dwell in the praises of His people and may we be enveloped by His tangible presence as we praise and worship Him today!