Jer 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” We don’t really know ourselves, even though we think we do. There is nothing more deceptive than one’s own heart. People will deceive you occasionally. The heart will deceive you constantly. It will always present to you a false picture. Your heart will always say, “You’re fine,” and you’re not! Honesty is not the heart’s policy!
The heart is fallen. It has been corrupted, tainted, and bent from the effects of sin. While it portrays to you the perfect picture of health, it is actually decaying slowly and desperately sick. This is one of the areas where you have to believe the Bible above and beyond your own experience. Your own experience is going to tell you that you are the exception to this verse. If you believe that, your heart has deceived you! We can never really get to the bottom of our hearts, but there is One who can!
Jer 17:10 “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.” There is One from whom the heart cannot hide nor deceive. It is the Lord. His all-seeing eyes look straight through the cloak of our self-deception. He turns the lights on in the dark corners of the heart. He alone lays the heart bare. Therefore, when the Lord tells us the condition of our hearts, we better listen. He is the only One who truly sees it! He will give us our true recompense, and it won’t be what we thought we deserved!
The good news is that the Sole Observer of the heart is also the Sole Changer of the heart! He alone can remove your desperately sick heart and give you a new one! (Jer 31)
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