HE Knows What's In My Heart
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
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Introduction:
This statement is probably the quintessential response made by Christians when they are trying to avoid HIS commandments or to explain their aberrant behavior.
(Statement:) "HE knows what's in my heart."
(Response:) Yes, but is that a good thing?
Scripture References:
21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.(KJV)
...for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth;
14For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him. (KJV)
YHWH does not respect any person but HE does provide us a means to get back to HIS salvation.
'7But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart. ' (KJV)
39Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)(KJV)
13"In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood." (KJV)
9"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (KJV)
10I 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. (KJV)
11"The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity." (KJV)
26"He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered." (KJV)
20"For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not." (KJV)
9And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.(KJV)
20"And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain." (KJV)
24And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,(KJV)
23And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. (KJV)