GPP 43: God Reads Your Heart

If belief in Jesus Christ you profess,
Making it public, kith* and kin to please;
Or to smooth the path to career’s success;
Or thinking to insure your less disease;
Or ungrieving over sins of the past;
Or not vowing former life-style reverse,
And keep putting worldly things first, God last;
Or the Bible not gleaning, truths rehearse;
Or doubting Jesus was raised from the dead,
Is living in heaven and will return;
Then, my friend, you’re still lost, and ought to
dread
That your lack of faith the Lord can discern!
Though you fill a pew till your backside smarts,
It won’t save you; He knows what’s in our
hearts!

*kith = friends

Promise Made: 1 Samuel 16:7 (NIV)—“But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not consider his appearance or his height [in choosing David to be anointed king over Israel], for I have rejected him [Eliab, David’s older brother]. The Lord does not look at the things man looks at, Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.’ “ (NIV) [Brackets added]

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)

“That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)