No One Needed To Tell Him About Human Nature, For He Knew What Was In Each Person's Heart.

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No One Needed To Tell Him

About Human Nature,

For He Knew What Was In Each Person's Heart.

Scripture

John 2

23 Because of the miraculous signs Jesus did in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration, many began to trust in him. 

24 But Jesus didn’t trust them, because he knew all about people. 

25 No one needed to tell him about human nature, for he knew what was in each person’s heart.

Observation

Riots, murder, arson, rape, corruption, robbery, social injustice, lying, all of those and a whole more comes from within our hearts. We are watching every day what is in people's hearts.

What almost always misses the news are the stories of people doing good! Do you remember when the Corona virus pandemic first began there were lots of stories of people doing good.

But those stories quickly took a back seat when the horrific story of George Floyd hit the news.

We have watched peaceful legitimate protests quickly hijacked by those who only wanted to only loot and destroy. Now taking advantage of the social unrest we have Anarchist who have gone to the streets in several cities with the goal of bringing down and destroying our government.

All of this is a reminder to me of the description of the human heart described in Jeremiah 17:9 “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?”

Galatians 5:19-23

19 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, 

20 idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, 

21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 

23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!

You and I are sinners. We too are capable of horrendous sins.

If we are believers in the Lord Jesus and if we allow the Holy Spirit to control our lives then our lives will produce the kind of fruit described in Galatians 5:22!

I don't know about you but that is the kind of fruit that I want people to see in my life!

Application

I am giving Jesus the Number One place in my heart!

How about you?

Prayer

Heavenly Father, our bent towards wickedness doesn't surprise You. I know that is the reason that You left heaven and came down to earth was to rescue us from the wickedness of our old nature. Thank You for giving me a new nature. I don't have to live in sin. Every day I have a choice. Those who do not have Jesus as their Lord and Savior only have the old nature and it is impossible for them to be any different from what they are. But I do have Your Holy Spirit and You do expect me to live differently from those who are lost. Help me to do just that!

Daily Bible Reading: Isaiah 63,64; Psalms 107; John 2

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