My heart. My heart.

All a person’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs hearts.

Proverbs 21:2

Excuses.  We like those. Excuses justify our actions. Our minds very naturally produce these.  We can read quites of others, Bible verses, get opinions of our friends… excuses are easy to come by and we find them even when not looking.  As a result, what we did always seems right. 

God looks through a different lens. His lens starts at our heart.  Supporting our actions, even with a perfect verse, is an unwise path. A deep dive  into the motives of our heart is more productive.

A friend of mine recently made a bad decision as it relates to his marriage.  I publicly berated him for his stupidity.  There are verses I can cite that tell me I reacted correctly.  I even got support from guys that are steeped in Biblical prose.  And yet, my heart doesn’t feel right.  I only know this after months of struggling through my actions. 

My heart.  My heart.  I rarely grasp its nature. 

Our brain controls most of the day, most of our words and actions. To figure out our own heart is not so simple.  It is the side of us that hides mostly because our brain does so much. At least that’s what I suspect is happening. 

The heart gauge is best studied by a dip into whether we choose love or something else in a particular instance. Otten that can take looking at our reaction from different perspectives. This takes time and thought. Mostly it takes divorcing ourselves from our own logic. That takes practice.

Look at the last time you got angry. Can you analyze your anger from the person’s perspective that was the object of your anger? How much love did your heart have at that moment? What did God see when he weighed your heart at that moment?

This sort of analysis can temper the next moment of anger.