Lord, You Know My Heart

The Text: 

                  Lord, you know everyone's heart.....     Acts 1:24

                     

                                                        Cristomo                         by Agostino Arrivabene, 2013 

 

The Whispering:

Lord, you know everyone's heart..... Wow. 

God knows. Knows the stuff we do with good intentions, and knows that which we may do with carefully crafted malevolent intent. God knows..

We all keep secrets:  feelings we harbor yet never express; desires for which we may yearn yet never chase, actions we've taken but have never admitted.  And, yet, God knows. 

How much energy do we spend keeping our secrets hidden? What effort, what psycho-social spiritual strength do we expend in order to create acceptable social masks that are congruent with society's norms - or the church's expectations? 

Because God already knows our hearts.

This is the place from which our prayers must commence.                                                 

This is the conversation God yearns to have with us every day. 

Because God knows.