Proverbs 20:6- Many people declare themselves loyal, but who can find someone who is [really] trustworthy?
James 1:6-8 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers
is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man
think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is
unstable in all his ways
Psalm 26:2 Put me on trial, LORD, and cross-examine me.
Test my motives and my heart.
1Corinthians 10:12
So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall!
Who are you
are when no one is around? Who are you when you’re separated from those who
KNOW you and around people who know nothing about you but that you that you
present? What is it that you want people to think of you when if it were
uncovered and presented as is…it’s not true? The distance in consistency and
trustworthiness under those conditions and in those circumstances are
indicative of who and what you really are as a person, in character and in
conduct. Have you ever examined yourself to see WHO AM I? Have you ever placed who
you are before God and asked Him to test your consistency and trustworthiness? I
ask that because many of us use our own measuring stick for these
principles and the word of God tells us clearly “The human heart is the most
deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it
is?” This lets me know only God can tell me who I really am, not other people
and surely not my own self. I don’t want to live the unexamined life of fakery
and trickery that most seem to aspire no higher to do. I have chosen to live at
a higher level and this requires frequent testing to reveal TRUTH.
Balance in our thinking and truth in our innermost man
requires examination. A test…a lying bare so that you can see--- “what is
really inside of me?” It is so easy to say “this is me, who I am” and then
declare what we will or won’t do/are capable of. It’s a far different matter to
be proven, tested and tried to see what truly holds out about you in what you
say and what you do. Consistency is the condition of cohering or holding
together and retaining form; solidity or firmness. Trustworthiness means
warranting trust, reliable. Untested, you don’t really know if those character
traits are present and accounted fully for in your heart and life. Do you want
that kind of character? Do you want to sow those kinds of seeds and experience
the harvest thereof? Sadly few do. It is
so much more easy and comfortable to say “this is me, this is what I do and who
I am…deal with it.” Well and good. Your God given free will allows for you to
do that which you feel big and bad enough to do. One thing though. God exposes. The enemy is an expert at setting you up to knock you down and God will allow for you to hold sway over others with deceit, lies and falsehood for only awhile. Then He allows for an exposure of truth that will leave you naked and as is before others. The ultimate end to all lies is an
end called death. In death your every thought, your heart and every
word and deed will be JUDGED and rewarded or condemned. Personally, I want to hear
more reward and earn more crowns than to know the sorrow and disappointment I
caused my Lord simply because I was un-yielded and unwilling to obey. So…ask
today “Put me on trial, LORD, and cross-examine me. Test my motives and my
heart.” Find out the depth or lack thereof of your consistency and
trustworthiness. Grow from there. Beloved, I am praying with and for you.
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