Mirror His Word Instead!
"For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper
than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division
of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
Hebrews 4:12
We've all met them: married couples who've been together
so long they can finish each other’s sentences. They even
give each other the sideways glance if one hears the other
saying something that “doesn’t sound
like you.” There’s no
fooling people who know each other intimately.
God knows us intimately, but something else knows us just as
intimate. And that is the Word of God. God is obviously “living
and powerful,” so is His Word. God can discern the “thoughts
and intents of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12) and so can His Word.
Which is one of those benefits of reading Scripture
daily,
to show us who we really are on the inside. And when we
encounter verses that lets us know we've fallen short of
God’s glory, we immediately go to God in confessional
prayer and be forgiven.
Let the Word be a mirror for your heart.
And let God cleanse you of any thought
or intent that is not pleasing to Him.
"We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is
until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture."
Elisabeth Elliot
