As I was thinking about last Sunday’s sermon (Matthew 5:21-26), I started pondering the reality of God knowing our deepest thoughts, inclinations, motives, emotions, etc. If this was real me how could I not be undone? I think we would be more Jesus-like if I cared that God sees and knows EVERYTHING.

I seem to live my life based on my ability to hide my true thoughts. I pretend to really care about the problems of thoses around me – and when I do they think I’m great. I pretend to have a calm and controlled demeaner – and when I do people think I’m mature. At work I give the appearance of full committment to the job – and my employer likes me. You get the idea. What if those around me knew what I was thinking about them, or they could see my demeaner, or my employer knew exactly how committed I was – my life would turn upside down. GOD KNOWS!

This world seems to have little real, genuine, godly care for people or God – it’s self centered. Whatever care there seems to be emerges from a selfish motive – a need to “help” them so we can move on to self. The examples of this are endless. The civil rights movement was launched when African Americans gained enough power to apply the needed pressure. Aid for the HIV/AIDS devastated populations comes only because HIV/AIDS might ravage us.

So, here’s my conclusion: Believing that God knows me (and I do) should naturally result in my being humble, merciful, completely broken, and trusting Jesus as my only hope (because I know there is no hope in my virtures).

So why am I not humble, merciful, broken, and completely trusting Jesus? Do I not believe? Do I not care that God knows my deepest me?

Proverbs 21:2 – All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart.

1 Samuel 16:7 – The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.