God sees the heart!
Acts 15:8 So God, who knows the heart, acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us,
Holy Spirit guides us
James 2:1My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism.
James writing to Jewish believers in regard to Jesus Christ and His gospel reminded them that in the synagogue there was to be no partiality. God chose the marginalized, the poor and downtrodden, but rich in faith, to spread the good news of the Gospel of Grace. We should love our neighbor especially those of the faith as much as we love ourselves. In so doing we fulfill all the requirements of not only the law but the gospel of Christ.
Romans 7:5-6 For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
Now we are delivered in Jesus Christ and live to serve in the newness of Holy Spirit and not in the letter of the law.
2 Corinthians 3:3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
As believers we are living epistles written not with ink but with the Holy Spirit of the living God. Not on tablets of stone but written in our hearts. Through Christ we are redeemed to God and in Him our sufficiency exist. God has made us ministers of the Gospel of Grace, not of the letter of the Law but of the Spirit. If the ten commandments written in stone were glorious how much more glorious are the times that we live in the age of Grace..
John 2:23-24
Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name. 24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people. 25 He did not need any testimony about mankind, for he knew what was in each person.
John’s purpose in recording Jesus’ miracles was for people to believe and have eternal life. Commit is the same Greek word translated believe in verse 23. There is a play on words here. These individuals trusted Jesus, but Jesus did not entrust Himself to them. Jesus fully understood the depth of trust of those who were following Him; some would stay, but many would fall away. The NKJ Study Bible
Our Lord knew all men, their nature, dispositions, affections, designs, so as we do not know any man, not even ourselves. He knows his crafty enemies, and all their secret projects; his false friends, and their true characters. He knows who are truly his, knows their uprightness, and knows their weaknesses. We know what is done by men; Christ knows what is in them, he tries the heart. Matthew Henry Commentary
John 2:11 This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.
Acts 1:24 And they prayed and said, “You, O Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which of these two You have chosen
Acts 15:8 So God, who knows the heart, acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us,
Matthew 9:4 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
Sovereign God, we thank You for Your Word. We believe that every word recorded in Scripture is for a purpose. Help us to see and know You better through the stories and visions recorded in this book. May our love and faith grow with our knowledge. In Jesus' name. First5
Okay, I have an idea. Let’s make attention (presence), the permission to be here now, our new authentic-self currency. Gratefully, it’s a currency every one of us carry (whether we know it—see it—or not).
And a blessed reminder that no one of us is on the journey alone. And we are walking one another home.
When we require (even demand) a certain script, we see only that script. We assume that the script will take us where we need to go. When we require tidiness, we see only the mess and we miss the beautiful complexity and gift of this moment. We miss the gifts of liberation and connection and healing that live in the sacrament of the present moment. Sabbath Moments
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