Monday, January 14, 2013

Open the Eyes of My Heart Lord

Let Me bless you with My grace and Peace. Open your heart and mind to receive all that I have for you. Do not be ashamed of your emptiness. Instead, view it as the optimal condition for being filled with My Peace.

It is easy to touch up your outward appearance, to look as if you have it all together. Your attempts to look good can fool most people. But I see straight through you, into the depths of your being. There is no place for pretense in your relationship with Me. Rejoice in the relief of being fully understood. Talk with Me about your struggles and feelings of inadequacy. Little by little, I will transform your weaknesses into strengths. Remember that your relationship with Me is saturated in grace. Therefore, nothing that you do or don’t do can separate you from My Presence.

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” —1 Samuel 16:7

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. —Romans 8:38–39
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We can hide nothing from God. Even if our outside appearance looks like we have it all together, God knows what is underneath it all. We are such a judging country. We are constantly looking at others making assumptions based on their height, weight, clothing and abilities. NONE of that matters to God. God is the only one who can truly look at our hearts and neglect to let any of those other features and attributes affect His judgement for us.

All we have to do is open the eyes of our hearts and let God come in and see who we really are. His grace is what gives us this relationship and the more we open up and let Him in, the stronger that relationship will become.

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