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What and Who do Others see in You?

"It is your own face that you see reflected in the water and it is your own self that you see in your heart." Proverbs 27:19 The Good News Translation








What and who do others see in you? The condition of our hearts will determine what we say, what we do, the places we will hang out at and the friends that we choose. Our lives are a reflection of what is in our hearts. Many people always determine a feeling as to what is in your heart. People say I really love God and He knows this because He knows my heart. But our behavior is in opposition to any love that we say we have for Him. The book of Jeremiah describes the heart that God knows of man. "Who can understand the human heart? There is nothing else so deceitful; it is too sick to be healed I, the LORD, search human minds and test human hearts. I treat each one according to the way he lives, according to what he does.” Jeremiah 17:9


The heart refers to the mind, the source of thinking, feeling, and action. It can betray a person in basic issues concerning the reality of God, His will, and His word. The heart can belie the truth. No one can comprehend its true character but God Himself, for only He can discern the motives and the reasoning behind it. God can know the heart, for only He may search and test the mind. This is a most powerful statement about the process of God’s discernment of the inner person. The Lord’s justice is evidenced in all His ways, giving people just recompense for all their ways and doings. God rewards or punishes according to faith, namely, trusting in Him and His name.

So what do others see? Does your thoughts and actions reflect who God is, or do they reflect what is truly in your heart. "What comes out of a man is what makes him ‘unclean.’ For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man ‘unclean.’ Mark 7:20-23


Any time anyone approaches us about our relation with God and our thoughts and actions, our first defense mechanism is always this same comment. I know that's wrong, but God knows my heart. Your right He sure does! But now it is time for you to get a reflection of what your heart is truly like. Your heart is deceiving you, because what you think is not seen is what others see. By most of our actions people do not get to see our lives reflecting the God we say we serve. No way! Would God gossip, lie, and curse people out when He got mad. Would your clubbing and drinking, and smoking give a reflection of the character of God. It's time to get a stress test. A stress test determines the conditon of a person's heart, is it weak or strong, is clogged with all types of matter. What is the condition of your heart. Watch your behavior if you live for God, then truly live for Him, don't be deceived, what and who do others see we when they see you. Is it a reflection of God or it a reflection of the evil that lives in your heart.

Take a good look at your face, and what and who do you SEE!

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