August 21, 2010

1 Corinthians 4
This is the glory of Christ: One day He will judge the motives of our hearts and each person’s praise will come to him from God. We can look at actions and try to determine whether that action was right or wrong. We have God’s law to use to evaluate that action. What we cannot determine is what motivated the person to that action. But Jesus can and does determine motives of the heart and will one day reveal them. He is indeed amazing in that He knows the motives of our hearts. Remember Jeremiah 17:9,10? “The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the results of his deeds.”
We are more than capable of self-deceit. Jesus cuts through all the trash of the twisted thinking of our hearts. If we let Him, He reveals our hearts to us, so that we might be changed. If we don’t let Him, He will reveal it to us on the day He comes. It is better to have it revealed now and to change than when He returns. Can we truthfully say to others, “I exhort you therefore, be imitators of me?” Jesus alone can cut through the trash of our hearts and change them. Indeed we serve a glorious King! Speak His glory to someone today!
--Pastor John