GOD KNOWS WHAT IS IN YOUR HEART...............

Eight times in Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the temple, he beseeches God to "hear from heaven" when His people confess their sins and pray for deliverance. It is marvelous that God, whose "dwelling place" is in heaven can actually hear the prayers of people here on earth, but we remember that He is omnipresent through His Holy Spirit.

 

Even more marvelous, if possible, is the fact that He can hear prayers uttered only in our hearts. But He is also omniscient, and thus knows the very thoughts of our hearts.

 

Then, as we read of Jesus' wrath at the desecration of the temple by those who would commercialize their religion there, it was said that He "needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man" (John 2:25). This is direct confirmation that Jesus is God, for only God knows the thoughts of our hearts.

 

It is a wonderful day when we realize that God knows our hearts. It can be frightening, of course, if our hearts are not right with God, but it can also be of great comfort and exhilaration--it all depends on the thoughts and motivations of our hearts. As David wrote long ago: "Thou understandest my thought afar off" (Psalm 139:2).

 

May God help us to be "casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ" (2 Corinthians 10:5). 

"That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." (Philippians 2:10-11)

 

Often this passage is thought of as an admission by all sentient beings of the Deity of the Lord Jesus--and it certainly is that. There surely will come a point in time in which "every thing that hath breath" will praise the Lord (Psalm 150:6). Those of us who are saved will do so with great joy. Those who have chosen to reject the gospel will also do so--but with overwhelming terror (Proverbs 1:27).

"Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear." Isaiah 45:22-23

"If God be for us, who can be against us?" 

                                                                                                         Romans 8:31

 

We also need to give God the credit for anything He enables us to accomplish in His service. Even such a great and useful Christian as the apostle Paul had to say: "But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me" (1 Corinthians 15:10).