Leading With an Honest Heart: Day 4
Spend 10 minutes meditating on God’s knowledge of your heart! Do you find this truth reassuring or unsettling or both?
by David Joynt on August 10, 2016
Get Real November 16 Devotional
November 16, 2024
The question about “who we are when no one is looking” begs a key issue—is there ever a time when we are truly unseen and unfettered? One of the Bible’s key assertions is that there is really no such thing as an unobserved sphere. Jeremiah’s indictment of the human heart as “desperately wicked” in Jeremiah 17:9, is immediately followed by the assertion that “I, the Lord, search the heart and probe the mind” (Jeremiah 17:10). Even the inner sanctum of the soul is public space? Jesus agrees, and proclaims his Father’s capacity to “see in secret” (Matthew 6:4). Later in the gospel he insists “there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed” (Matthew 10:26; Luke 8:17).
Everything we do and say and think is known by God—nothing of who we are or what we do is unseen by Him. Ultimate accountability is built into the very structure of reality. We have genuine freedom but never complete independence from God, who knows us better than we know ourselves.
Spend 10 minutes meditating on God’s knowledge of your heart!
Do you find this truth reassuring or unsettling or both?
