Look At My Heart?

But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”  1 Samuel 16:7

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.  Matthew 15:18-19

So, in order to meet the One who was, and is, and is to come, there must be a fix for this heart problem. Reading the two scriptures passages for today, one may easily think that there is no hope for us at all: God sees into the heart, and Jesus reports what He found there. However, with a bit more reading in the Word, we find that God, who sees the heart, sent Jesus, who knows the heart, to be the sacrifice to cleanse that evil heart and redeem us for God. Therefore our hope is in Him!

As the hymn says: I once was lost, but now am found!

Bucky