Jer 17:9  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

I would like to share a simple story of how true and real this is.

One day, as I were making dinner, I had an awakening experience. In our kitchen we normally have two plants in the window frame.  Both of witch are used for food. This particular time i noticed that someone had helped themselves to my plant. I started thinking to myself, of how rude an act that was, stealing my plant, and without even asking. I partly came to my senses and shaked the somewhat hateful though of. And then it all of a sudden hit me.What I was doing. Don’t miss this:

At the very same time. During this whole experience, I was standing over the other plant, that was NOT mine, helping myself to huge quantities of someone else’s plant, for usage in my food, whilst simultaneously judging someone else for doing something that I was in the very act of doing myself!

It hit me hard. Real hard! One thing would be if I had done it earlier that day, and forgot about my actions. That would be somewhat “excusable”. But there I were, doing the very same act as i was judging. How deceitful and wicked, even desperately wicked my heart is!

Who can know it?

Luckily someone can! God knows everything about you. Now, some might think that’s scary, but I sure don’t! If God knows my heart, he can show me my heart, and if I let him, he can change it. If this plant experience had been introduced to me earlier, i’m not so sure i would have seen my deceitfulness.  Lately I’ve learned a lot about how salvation and gaining victory over sin really works. How to surrender to Christ, and give him my life’s steering wheel. I wrote some about that, in the post FNB, I changed. This plant experience is only one of many, “wow”, “aha”, “ops”, and “help me God”, I’ve experienced lately. And i thank God for waking me up, and starting to show me part of my deceitful heart, so i can surrender, and let Him live in me.

Jer 17:10  I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Mat 6:8  Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

Don’t let your heart get to you, invite Christ to fill it, and fill it completely, today, and continually.

God Bless, and Happy Sabbath!