Isaiah 29:13
"The Lord said:
this people draws near with words only
and honors me with their lips alone,
though their hearts are far from me. . ."
"The Lord said:
this people draws near with words only
and honors me with their lips alone,
though their hearts are far from me. . ."
Pope Benedict XVI wrote that "our character has to do with our being." Isaiah tells the same thing. Sometimes, God's people are his people in word only. They do not live for God. Even today, people profess God by saying they are Christians. Too many times, Christianity becomes a badge to wear not a life to live.
In time, our lives will reveal the motives of our
heart. Our humanity divulges secrets. In the deepness of our inner self, we live a continual conversation with our self realized truths. We self reason and justify the
desires of our heart. This self idealization can become misinterpreted as a divine path.
Our unqualified reason has a natural basis and
can be understood in the individual life experience in which it originates. However, it is usually an ill-equipped reason. Singularly justified, this reason is flawed in its ability to distinguish the successes and failures in the practices of life.
God desire for us is to realize truth. Only in God's conversation with our
character can we become the image of Christ. In our self reason, we must hear God and know Christ's love to answer "yes" to this conversation every day. In this we live truth.
Prayer:
Our lives reveal the motives of our hearts, our
character is in our being, grant that our hearts are pure and our lives reveal
your truth.
We ask this in Christ Jesus name, Amen
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