"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can understand it?" Jermiah says in Chapter 17:9 My heart is so wicked. The things I say during the day, the things I think, the things I do, and some of the things I don't do disgust me. The next verse says, " I the lord search the heart..." I know for sure that I don't want a holy God to look into my heart, and be disgusted with what he sees in me. The amazing thing I can't understand is how our hearts can be full of sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, emnity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissentions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things alike. (Gal.5) and God sees us as perfect, only because the spotless blood of Jesus has covered us. He is such a loving , merciful, and compassionate God! That list of sins are all works of the flesh, which are in each one of our hearts, but paul says if we walk in the spirit we will not gratify those desires. Its so hard not to feed our flesh, and to crucify it, to put it to death like it says in Romans. It really hurts when we have to give up things we desire that are ungodly, but how much better it feels when we are not in bondage to any of those works. I guess what Im trying to say is thank you Jesus for the freedom you have given each one of us, and the forgiveness you freely give us. He doesn't hold back any good gift from us! He is a Good God!
