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| April 7, 2001 |
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| "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 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." Jeremiah 17:9-10 No optical illusions in nature exceed the illusions that can be left by our own hearts. By diagnosis, the human spiritual heart is beyond cure. Unaided by God, the response of each of us toward knowing his or her heart must be despair: "Who can know it?" No one can fathom the secrets or pierce the darkness of his or her own heart. This is especially true at the point of the question about whom we trust ~ here again, our hearts can fool. But there is hope. It rests in this: God knows your heart! He sifts, searches, explores, and probes the human heart. He tests and examines human emotions. This is our hope. When we get to know God, we get to know our own heart. You do not know your heart by looking into it yourself. You know your heart by getting to know God through our Lord Jesus. "O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me" (Psalm 139:1). May God Bless you always. <J><E><S><U><S>< <S><A><V><E><S>< |