Man looks on the outward appearance of other men, and they measure themselves by themselves, but GOD looks on the heart of men, and GOD judges the hearts of men!
If King David was king in this generation of people, then many of you would judge him, condemn him, hate him, try to destroy him, and try to take the kingdom away from GOD’S chosen anointed king, because you would try to judge him according to his sin, not knowing he is a man after GOD’S own heart!
Even though GOD himself says he is a man after his own heart, King David is guilty of adultery, fornication, murder, and deception, but yet, he is still GOD’S chosen anointed king, and GOD still allows him to sit upon the throne after he committed such great sins against GOD!
For with GOD it is a matter of the heart, not the flesh, and many people can see your sins, your failures, your shortcomings, and the many disappointments you suffer in life, but not too many people can see your heart, the grace and mercy you show to others, the great forgiveness you have for your enemies, and people who made themselves your enemies!
Many people can see what’s wrong with you, but not too many people can see what’s right with you!
Many people can see you when you stumble and fall, and when you’re down for the count, but not too many people will see your faithfulness, your commitment, and your long suffering!
Many people will judge you and condemn you for your outward appearance, your past, your present, and who you currently are now, but they do not know your heart, and the beauty that lives on the inside of you!~
There are many people who are bent on judging my life, and condemning me with their words, because they think they know me, but they don’t know my heart!
They don’t know about my close personal relationship I have with GOD, the conversations I have with GOD, the late night talks I have with GOD, the talks I have within myself, the question I have for GOD, the way he invades the thoughts of my mind and my heart, my prayers to GOD, the wisdom of GOD in me, and the revelation knowledge he has entrusted me with!
“THEY DON’T REALLY KNOW THE REAL ME OR THE HEART OF ME, THEY JUST THINK THEY KNOW!”~
(1 Samuel 16:7) But the LORD said unto the prophet Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.
(2 Corinthians 10:7) Do you look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.
I think some people just try to judge and condemn me, because they don’t understand how GOD makes something work that’s not supposed to work according to man!
Many people sit around and measure themselves by lives of other men, not knowing the cost they paid to be the men and women they are!
A woman once told me she was jealous of me, because she knew GOD a long time, and when I was not living for GOD she was praying for me to change, and she never did the things I did in life!
But she couldn’t understand how I have been to the penitentiary numerous times, sold drugs, been a drug dealer, hurt people, was a career criminal, and been to jail for murder, but now you know the word of GOD, and people are always prophesying to you things GOD said about you!
And this woman was my wife, and the mother of my two daughters!
(Jeremiah 15:10) Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth!
I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet does every one of them curse me.
The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with your remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat you well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
Thy substance and your treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.
And I will make you to pass with your enemies into a land which you do not know: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.
O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.
Your words were found, and I did eat them; and your word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, O LORD God of hosts.
I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand: for you have filled me with a righteous anger.
Why is pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed?
Will you be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
Therefore thus says the LORD, If you return, then will I bring you again, and you shall stand before me: and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouthpiece: let them return unto you; but return not you unto them.
And I will make you unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD.
And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.