FRUITS OF YOUR DOINGS.

TEXT: JEREMIAH 17:9-10

“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. “

            The fruits of your heart are the things that you think of and act; the fruits of your doings are the outcomes of your actions. Actually there is barely anything you do that you have actually not thought of. The thought might be so short that you may not even realize you thought of it. GOD is interested in everything about us, even what we think, HE knows them all. Our text makes us to know that HE searches our hearts. In fact GOD is more interested in our motives of doing things than our actual actions; that is why HE wants to know what is in our hearts. HE does not want us to feign righteousness; HE wants us to be righteous, from inside our hearts, through our thoughts to our actions. As human I could be congratulating you for a success physically, but in my heart wishing you never achieved that success, but you will be happy with me because you think I have good thoughts toward you. GOD sees my heart, HE will not see me as if I love you, HE will see me the way I am “an hater of you” most times we act like we are trying to deceive GOD, but GOD cannot be deceived.

    How do we respond or react to the commandments of GOD in our hearts? Do we see HIS commandments as burdens, or we see them as guidelines to live a holy life without which no one shall see GOD? Are you trying to please GOD so that you will not go to hell after death or you are doing HIS will because you love HIM and you do not want to hurt HIM? There is no how anyone will love GOD and will not long to see HIM. From today let your longing be to live a holy life because it makes GOD happy. This is what HE wants from us, HE looks at our hearts too, not just our actions. HE wants us to love HIM with all our hearts and strength.

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