Open hearted

June 3, 2010

Psalm 27:19 "As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man."

I am a pretty decent actor. I am comfortable on a stage and I am comfortable in front of a group of people. I am good at my job because I can relate and fit in from the warehouse to the boardroom. Over the years, I have refined the art of putting on the appropriate face for the appropriate crowd. And to be honest, I am convinced that so has the majority of people in the world. In our lives we now have Facebook and Myspace and Twitter, and a hundred other websites that allow us to portray an image out to the world. But it may or may not be real. I like the country song lyrics that say "I'm so much cooler online."

So, if everyone is acting to some degree, and putting up the profile they want others to see, how do we ever see the real person? We watch their heart. How do they treat others, even when no one else is looking? What is their attitude like? What do they spend their money on? Under stress, how do they react? The heart will always betray itself, no matter what the face is showing.

1 Samuel 16:7 says " 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." The question I am asking myself this morning is; how does my heart look? Am I believing my own marketing? Am I acting like something that I am not? Or, am I guarding my heart to protect it from evil and to allow it to serve and glorify the Lord. I don't want people to see something that isn't me, I want to live open hearted. And I pray that if I do that, that my heart will reflect me as a man who loves his Lord.

Father, please do a heart check in me. Remove anything that needs to be removed. "Create in me a clean heart Lord." I love you Jesus,
Amen