I am calling this my impact verse of the week: 1 Chronicles 28:9 And you, (insert your own name), acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.
I have been dwelling on this all week. I am not real sure what drove me to this particular passage – I suspect it’s a God thing since I was randomly reading my bible in no particular order and this verse has stayed with me.
There is only one word that really strikes it home for me and it is “motive”. God knows my whys and reasons for doing something before I even do. I think we as Christians have become dulled or numb to the statement that God knows our heart or “would I do this or that if Jesus was standing next to me”? What do you think?
However, for the better part of a week, I’ve found myself asking “why?” whenever I was pondering something. For example: wash my mom’s floors – which I do every two weeks. So now…WHY am I washing her floors? Am I doing it for the money? Doing it because it’s right? Because it’s my duty? What? So now, when I “do unto others”, WHY is the question of the day.
Terry
