"These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts is far from Me.
And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men."
[NKJV, Matt 15:8-9]
How that sound familiar to you. Just an overall generalisation; i guess pretty much of our friends whether or not christians or non it still sounds familiar to us. I confess sometimes my heart is far from Him.
With so much temptation, confusion, condemnation, pressure and everything a kid or an adult would face, its really difficult to just put our minds back on track. But DIFFICULTY is not an excuse to God. By hook or by crook, we have only one way which is Jesus the way, the truth and the life.
We can always say how much we love Him or how much we praise Him but our hearts are far from Him. "What's the point?" He will then ask.
"When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, "Hear and understand: Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of our mouth, this defiles a man" [NKJV Matt 15:10-11] "But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man" [NKJV Matt 15:18]
To God, what speech you make, what praises you sing, it has to be from the heart.
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1 comment:
Great point.
Best time to check our faith and our distance with Him, is during difficult time.
For God doesn't look at how 'florish' our prayer is, instead He look into the heart. The most sincere prayer is the prayer that we speak from the bottom of our heart and place the FULL trust in Him. Amen!
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