THE CONDITION OF OUR HEART
THERE'S OUR WAYS, THEN THERE'S GOD'S WAYS
Most, if not all, of us have strongly held beliefs. They are quickly revealed during our seasons of presidential elections. We may be right or we may be wrong.
- How do we know when we are right or wrong?
Maybe that's a question not to be answered first. Maybe the first question to ask is,
- "What is each and everyone capable of?"
There's an Old Testament verse that should jolt us and wake us to reality of our human nature. Jeremiah 17:9 - - - “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; Who can know it?"
Do any of us think we are or can be WICKED? WICKED - a word not used in regards to ourselves.
- GOD knows our deceitful and desperately wicked hearts.
- GOD knows we need a change of heart.
- GOD knows the only way to change our hearts is to TURN from our ways to His ways.
Romans 10:9-10 - - - "that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and BELIEVE IN YOUR HEART that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the HEART a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the MOUTH he confesses, resulting in salvation."
That which is in the HEART will come out of the MOUTH. So, what's coming out of our mouths?
How do we know when we are right or wrong? The better question might be,
- "How do we know we need a Savior, the Savior, Jesus Christ, the son of the Living God?" No one is exempt from needing the Savior of the world. Man's heart needs to be changed.
Father, draw us to your son so we can have a change of heart.