Living Tried and True

The heart is desperately wicked who can know it...

Many of us walk around being kind hearted towards people and being nice and courteous. And while some are nice outwardly even with good manners, inside a storm of bitterness, resentment, and hurt is being harbored deep inside. It will be only a minute or even one more offence to make that person Snap! Again, the heart is desperately wicked who can know it. Jeremiah 17:9

Much like a sink hole, the ground above looks strong and sturdy yet, down beneath it's loose and one more movement causes everything on top and within to cave and destroy much leaving nothing but wreckage to see.
I stop to think which am I or have I done. Have I given the offence or harbored one...Of course! However, I decide I want to change not for anyone but for how God sees me. I want to please the Lord and it's all based on the condition of my heart and my choices. I have to keep trying to be better whatever comes at me. Does it mean to be gullible toward others? Of course not. We must stand up for what we believe and not let people rule you and easily change the truth inside. However, if God is leading He will give you directions on how to walk out and live true.

Everything that is True will be tried constantly to remain True. Only that which is True will Remain True. There are many counterfeits and rare Truths, that's why the truth is tried.

"But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold." Job 23:10

I 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. Jeremiah 17:10

My encouragement today is to be True above all. The Truth is being sought out at a very confused world, nation, state, community, city, home, and individual. The Truth is simple for those who choose not to change it or complicate it by change. Once it changes it then becomes a lie.

Anyone who listens to The Word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. James 1:23-24

A friend of mine told me many years ago while working many hours in a factory that registered with me, "To thine ownself be True because if you lie to self than everything else is a lie. Be True to you and all else is True". The reason this was so impactful was because I had just became a believer in Jesus Christ and I had began reading a very small pocket black bible that I had carried in my pocket at work. I had recently began to read the Truth and her saying that, (which I'm sure she had no clue at the time) commissioned me to walk and live out what was True because I had been so deceptive prior to. I wanted to change!

I told myself that if I ever became a believer, that I would not be deceptive anymore because in actual, it was bondage where as the Truth, set me free. I want to stay free. I was so in bondage for so long that I can recognize deception easily now. It was the condition of my heart at that time and I wanted and desired change. I had to become True. I wanted no more chains wrapped tightly around my heart but freedom to pump out the Truth. Jesus is The Way, The Truth, and The Life I sought.

Even today the Lord awakens me to be True and fight the Good Fight of Faith. The reason why it's fought is because the Truth has to Remain and anything else, is a lie. Live True! The Lord asked me this morning, "Who will stay in truth, live in truth, act in truth, be truth and lead truth...Where are all those who will be that Truth that is being sought out?" I know He asked me that because there is a price to pay for Truth and that's the exchange of my flesh for His truth. Gold tried in the Fire. My fleshly desired of wanting to be right in exchange for His humility. Flesh tried in the fire of His Truth to come out having His Truth in exchange. I must decrease that He may increase. I can do what He asks of me when I yield to Him and put away the things of my flesh.

Those offences have to go. If the other person never changes and keeps doing the offences knowing right, let them. As long as it's not me and I continue wanting to change my heart is what really matters.

If things begin to bother you more and more, than perhaps it not the things any more but the condition of your heart. If something keeps pricking you than that's a sure thing that you have a problem in the heart. It's no longer them or the things but you. For it was no longer the things that bothered me anymore, it was I who had a Spiritual Heart Disease. Daily do a heart check and see if there's a problem. If there is deal with the matter promptly. "Lord please make me a Sanctuary Pure and Holy, Tried and True. With thanks giving, I'll be a living sanctuary for You".

May the Truth of Gods word change us so much so, that others can see the reflection of Jesus in our eyes and actions without saying a word and may we be bearers of the Truth, Live True. A spiritual heart transplant for having His heart in exchange for our fleshly heart.To thine own self Be True. My the Truth of Gods Word change us daily Living Tried and True!