The Heart of God

When we live in "humble adoration" of our Lord there is no time to think about self.

Those who love the Lord do not read the word to gain knowledge to appear superior, they read the Word to learn the heart of Christ, that they might please Him.

Our knowledge about the word is not an indicator of our closeness to Christ. Many unsaved scholars who know a lot about the Bible, even having read all the way through, but they do not understand what they have read.

Many pastors in the pulpit today have knowledge about God, even vast knowledge about the stories, the facts and other things, but they do not have His heart. We can judge this by the foolishness that goes on in the churches that grieve the heart of God. They lean on their own understanding deeply committed to notoriety for themselves.

Psalm 51:10
"Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Jeremiah 17:9
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?"

Jeremiah 17:10
"“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

Matthew 5:8
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

Hebrews 4:12
"For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart."

Proverbs 4:23
"Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life."

Proverbs 3:5-6
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."