The Lord knows your heart… He knows your thoughts and your motives.  Do you understand the winding avenues and lightning flashes of your thoughts?  Not always.  What does the Lord say about your heart and motives?

(NASB) Jeremiah 17:9-10 “The heart is more deceitful than all else
And is desperately sick;
Who can understand it?
10 ‘I, the Lord, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give to each man according to his ways,
According to the results of his deeds.”

When I was without Christ as my Savior my heart was desperately sick and I didn’t even know it.  Perhaps you can say the same.

For the followers of Christ, we come gladly into God’s presence knowing He is merciful.  He is the Giver of His grace.  We cannot earn His favor, we don’t deserve His mercy but in His compassion He has given us His Son.  The Lord Jesus Christ redeemed all when He died on the cross.  Have you received His redemption?

The living God knows our hearts and yet loves us.  The proof of His love and mercy and grace is the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the tomb.

He is fair in His judgments… this is why we need Jesus.

Rebekah’s heart was also deceitful… and she paid a price.  She knew God’s will for her favorite son, Jacob.  But she did it her way and not God’s way.

How would the Lord God have given Jacob the blessing without deceitfulness?  We don’t know.

As you read the actual events which led to Jacob receiving the blessing – think about this – are you being deceitful?

Rebekah overheard Isaac asking their oldest twin to go hunt and bring a “savory” dish to eat, then Esau would be given the blessing.  She then devised a plan which involved Jacob, the younger twin to receive the blessing.

(NASB) Genesis 27:7-10 “‘Now therefore my son (Jacob), listen to me as I command you.
9 ‘Go now to the flock and bring me two choice young goats from there, that I may prepare them as a savory dish for your father, such as he loves.
10 ‘Then you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.’”

~ Take it to heart ~

(NASB) Proverbs 12:20
“Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil,
But counselors of peace have joy.”

Are you devising evil or are you a counselor of peace?

Remember: the Lord knows your heart!