Topic: Do all you do with sincerity and integrity of heart
Bible Reading: 2 Kings 20-22; John 6:45-71
Memory verse; “Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying, [3] I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.” 2 Kings 20:2-3 (KJV)
God sees the heart of every man and works with us looking at the intents and motives of the heart. Although His plans and purposes never change He still listens to man and gives to us according to the desires of our heart if we put it out to Him strongly.
There was a gentile King who took the wife of a man of God and wanted to make her his wife. God came in a dream to this king. Genesis 20:3 (KJV) tells us, “But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.” Abimelech, the king, gave his own reason why it was so, Genesis 20:5 (KJV), “Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.” Abimelech did what he did from the integrity of his heart and God corrected him. But note that God saw the reason Abimelech gave from his heart.
King Hezekiah, in today’s bible reading, received a message that his time is up here on earth. But the King still loved God and wanted to hang around some more. He brought before God his reasons for more time on earth and he humbled himself before God. Isaiah 38:10, 18-20 ( KJV), tells us his words after God heard him, “I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. [18] For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. [19] The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth. [20] The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.”
The reasons above given by Hezekiah was enough to get additional 15 more years to his years on earth. What reasons do you have for God for that issue of concern? Let’s learn from Hezekiah. God truly sees the heart and is open to the reasons you give.
Prayer: My Father, My God, help me to serve You in the sincerity and integrity of my heart for the rest of my life in Jesus name.
Bro. Worthmore Aghanenu