God’s grace

What Does He See?

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What does God see when He looks at our heart? Does He see a cluttered heart, brimming with activities but with little time for Him?

Does He catch us off guard while we are manipulating our situation and those around us to reach our goals.

Will He notice a secret sin that we have hidden from every other eye but His. And all the while we have struggled to look good on the outside we are missing His offer to cleanse us on the inside by the blood of Jesus Christ.

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” I Samuel 16:7 NKJV

What is my Reflection?

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For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. I Corinthians 13:12 NKJV

I am amazed every morning as I walk by the pond in our neighborhood. Some days its reflections take on the look of a watercolour on canvas. The beauty secret of our humble pond is not its size or even depth, but its stillness.

Do you sometimes wonder what people see when they look at our lives? Not many of us are rich, famous or amazingly smart. Neither our best efforts or our loudest boasting can change who God created us to be.

But there is a great victory in acceptance of who we truly are. Acceptance of God’s gift of grace gives us a quietness to our soul. As the peace of that stillness spreads across the surface of our life we will effortlessly reflect the vivid colors of the beauty of our Lord…