Your Heart, The Center of Your Soul

Proverbs 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

God sees your heart. More than anything else, God cares what is in your heart. We can’t hide anything from Him. He sees what’s in our heart. You may appear right outwardly (you wear the right clothes, wear your hair right, walk the right way, speak the right lingo) so people will think you are spiritual. But when it is all about appearances you can only go as far and it doesn’t last long. There will come a time when covering for the bases and keeping up the act will be too complicated to follow through. Christian life will then be a process of outward conformity. We are cheating ourselves but most importantly God. So, put off the pretensions and be genuine with God and others. For in 1 Samuel 16:7 it says …for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

Proverbs 4:4 He taught me also, and said unto me, let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

God sees every intentions of our heart. It is important to take note that outward changes only happen when there is a sincere inward transformation. The inward transformation far outweighs our outward conformity. Conformities are not God’s way of changing lives. We should guard our heart for out of thy heart flows the issues of life (Proverbs 4:23). Your heart will determine the way you think and feel. The unseen influence in every choice and decisions you make. So it will either guide you into God’s will or away from His will. That is why it is very important how and what we feed our minds with for it shall influence the desires of our hearts. Are we feeding it with the Word of God or the ways of this world?

Luke 16:15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth you hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

I have learned as I study the Word of God that God has no gray areas in all issues of life. It is either good or evil, Heaven or hell, righteous or unrighteous. I have learned that God wants me to surrender to His will and what He wants is what’s in my heart for I believe that the heart is the seat of my will and more than anything else I’d rather pursue His will than my own will. Now I see that more than anything else, God wants my heart for out of it flows the issues of life. I would like to focus on the issue of heart. There two kinds of hearts: the impure and the pure heart.


IMPURE HEART
A person with this kind of heart makes decisions as they move forward into spiritual danger and never seeing that black hole. Their warning device to alert you of spiritual danger doesn’t function properly. It is distorted. It is unreliable. It becomes as such because you don’t have the Holy Spirit as your warning device. And the only way for the Holy Spirit to work in your life is when you are saved. With every decision comes a lifetime consequence and when we make wrong decisions we live with it for the rest of our life.

Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

PURE HEART
A person with a pure heart sees God’s warning and sees the spiritual danger before it comes. Why? Because the Holy Spirit who is our guide gives us the wisdom that we needed thus with sound and sober mind we will be able to determine the right decisions. If you will come to your senses, a person with a pure heart sees God at work in every situation and every decision. How can you go wrong if you choose to follow God’s way? In that way, you are at peace in whatever situation you are in. Your heart is being used by God to help you see things that others won’t and understand things that other miss. Your heart is completely pliable and flexible to see and follow God’s purpose and will in your life no matter what.

Only with an obedient heart can you get right with God. Get saved! Does Jesus Christ lives in your heart? Is Jesus Christ your personal Saviour? Do you believe that He is the ONLY way to Heaven? Get your heart right with God!

APPLICATION: What does God see in your heart today? What are you allowing others to see that you know you cannot hide from God?

Scriptural passages to ponder from the Word of God:
Psalm 44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Jeremiah 17:10 I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.