Does God know what is in our Heart?

Ah, yes God most certainly does know our hearts. We justify our thinking, our feelings, our motives. We mock God while all the time doing all of this in His name and thinking "it is well with our soul". With faces we 'show' what WE consider to be love -- and then in our hearts have nothing but malice and envy - which goes unrecognized, understated, and unrepented of. We are self-centered, self-focused and self-propriatiating. How can a cup that is empty, pour out? How can a vessel lacking, bring forth life? Quite simply - it can't - and that is the whole point.

Without breath in our spiritual lungs we are nothing but dead men walking. Without a continuous ebb and flow of communion with the Spirit of God - we have nothing but empty, lifeless lips speaking empty words. Without application, supplication and impression, all that can come forth from us is flesh.

Isaiah 65:2-5
I have stretched out My hands all day long to a rebellious people,
Who walk in a way that is not good,
According to their own thoughts;
A people who provoke Me to anger continually to My face;
Who sacrifice in gardens,
And burn incense on altars of brick;
Who sit among the graves,
And spend the night in the tombs;
Who eat swine’s flesh,
And the broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Who say, ‘Keep to yourself,
Do not come near me,
For I am holier than you!’
These are smoke in My nostrils,
A fire that burns all the day.

Although, this scripture is referencing Israel... it still applies to the very nature of God and his thinking concerning rebellious flesh nature.

But, OH to walk in his ways! Seek His face!

Seeking God's face is about knowing God, knowing who He is, knowing Him very closely. To walk with Him and to have a relationship with Him. Letting his spirit consume us.

As Christians when we believe that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior and submit our whole self completely, it is then that we have been resurrected to life, as it were, so that there will be a change in the kind of life we live due to God being at work in us. We become santified.

Sanctification is also known as becoming holy and becoming conformed to God's image. (Eph. 1:4 and Romans 8:29). We begin to take on the characteristics of the Family—where we begin to think and act like the current members of the Family of God. The character, the mindset, the attitudes, the perspective, the way we think, the way we look at things begins to become just like the God's.

The sanctification process writes the laws of God in our hearts and minds, making His righteousness real and practical to daily life. During this process, which requires our cooperation with Him in His purpose, we literally become conformed to the image of Jesus Christ.

We have been summoned to a great cause. The summons is personal and specific. It presents us the challenge of choosing to live a life worthy of the awesome vocation to which God has summoned us. Our calling has become our life's work.

God has summoned us to yield to His creative efforts of reproducing Himself, just as II Corinthians 3:18 instructs us: "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord."

Oh, live within me God -- Let me seek your face, be santified, transformed and conformed to your image daily. Let me not trample on your goodness and grace! Let me be a light, a reflection of you. Purge me, cleanse me, help me to submit to you and your Word. Let me be your face to others with a heart that radiates your life...and not mine. In Jesus name. Amen.

- I wrote this as a post on a friend's FB page, while inspired by the HS this am. Awesome!