WALKING WITH OUR MOUTHS

Many places in the bible reveal to us that God weighs our hearts and we use htat phrase often. However, many times, we use this line consciously and/or subconsciously when we know that we haven't given true effort in how we go about our daily lives. This makes the words, "God knows our heart", a sad one. Why is it sad? Because we are correct. He does know our hearts. He knows that we come up with excuses of being too busy, too tired, late for work, as to why we can't read His word amd spend tiome meditating in Him daily. He knows that our ever-useful stumbling block of, "That's just the way I am", has us failing to become more like Him, which is our supposed goal. He knows that we use any and every reason to not do something that He's told us to do. In short, He sees that we are not practicing towards being like Him in His righteousness but practicing towards us and our rightness. He sees that we've done nothing to change and that our hearts, in essence, states that He is not first in our lives, but last and depending on our sleep pattern, maybe not even that. What our heart ultimately shows Him is that we do not breathe for Him; that He is not our Lord. Harsh right? But when we boil it down, that is exactly what we are saying. Then we wonder why things within our lives shatter so easily, faith included. It brings to mind a pond that has its first freeze. If you look across it you see no water. Everything looks as if you can walk on it without falling through. Yet it's only the top layer that's frozen. Any real weight applied and it will crack. This is how many of us are walking in Christ. On the outside we look like we are solid but truly we are a thin sheet on top of raging waters that the devil can't wait to crack. And though, sadly, we allow this to be our constant what's worse is that we teach others to do the same. This is why we can't make a true impact on people's lives. We are blinded by our own words while confessing what our hearts and minds don't hold to and it's shown throughout our walk and sadly, through our teaching of others.