God knows your heart!

Three of us out to get a few miles in this morning and to talk about the word of God.

I had the opportunity to share my experience I had at camp a few weeks ago and let me tell you it was great!

Our verse was 1 Samuel 16:7

But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

The lord sees our heart and wether it’s pure or not, wether it is for him or against him, wether it is full of love or full of sin. No matter what man sees or says the lord knows the true YOU! What I experienced at camp was an eye opener as a youth pastor, father and as a leader. These kids have been misled in many ways spiritually because of us leaders walking around covering up bondage. The kids need to see us in our weakness and in our trials of life, they need to see our reaction to the things that battle us daily. When we are weak he is strong! They need to see Christ working in you.

I talked to my youth group all week about different things but I was able to speak to the guys about being a man. Society has put a label on what a man is suppose to look like and these guys are using that label in forming their lives. Some of them think they’re not worthy or they’re not good enough at life so they’re not good enough for the lord which is FALSE! Some of them think they have to degrade women, drink alcohol and cuss to be more of a man which is also FALSE! What we need to do is love the lord with all our heart all of our soul and all of our minds! Nothing will makes us more of a man than loving Jesus Christ. Being a Godly man in every situation.

I told them that is a hard thing to do in the flesh but through Jesus Christ our savior we can have a pure heart, we can love deeply, we can allow him to move when we are weak!I told them Doing good isn’t good enough that doesn’t make you a Christian and it will not get you in to heaven. The only way is through acceptance of the blood of Jesus Christ!  Accepting Christ as our savior will start it all and it’ll be hard but it will be worth it all!

I ended up having two come to know Christ as their savior that week and I baptized them last week at service and it was awesome! No matter what the world says and no matter the label they put on you, know this… God knows your heart and He will always put you where you need to be as long as you believe in Him and stay available for his works!!

Where is your heart? God knows..

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