Psalms 139:23-24

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Psalm 139:23-24-Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Do we know what is in our heart? We should, we know of all of the feelings that we keep there. We keep love there, and we often keep hate, envy, jealousy, bitterness, strife, and things that we sometimes we want to hold on to as a reminder of who and what hurt us.

When God looks at our hearts, I feel that He is often displeased with the unnecessary things that we keep there. Things that we should have given to Him so He could make our hearts feel whole again. Why would we want to hold on to things that only makes our hearts hurt. Anything that makes our hearts hurt, we should always give it to God. He wants us to have pure hearts, and pure minds. He does not want us to have a heart filled with things that are not pure; because whatever is in our hearts is going to come out of us, and when we have thoughts that are not pure it corrupts the mind. We have to ask Him to clean us from the inside out; make us new so that we may serve Him having pure hearts, and pure minds. God is holy, so therefore our inner man must be clean. Our heart is His home, because His Spirit lives within us.

No, we are not perfect people, but we serve a perfect God. We all are works in progress. Regardless of the things that we go through in life, and all of the mistakes we will make, He will always love us. Thank God for His love, mercy, and grace, and His forgiveness. Just think about it, if He were mean, He would not have sent His one and only Son into this world to lay down His life for the sins that we committed. He would have just let us die in our sins. Yes, God will get mad and destroy things, and places just as He did back then, but He is merciful. yes, we are to fear God, but in a healthy way, not to the point that we are afraid to go to Him when we need to carry our burdens to Him, or just to talk and spend time with Him. He is our Father, and we are to respect Him as such. So, the next time there is something that you feel in your that should be given to God, just take it to Him in prayer and leave it at the feet of Jesus. Amen!