Heart

Jesus said to them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;      Mark 7:6

Heart   by Myuran Sukumaran

The reason I most often hear from unchurched people as to why they don’t go to church is,  “Church-y people are such hypocrites.”

And that answer makes me sad because it can be so true. The Church has, over time, welcomed its share of “holier than thou” hypocrites.  And, often, within its walls, we witness murmuring, triangulation, gossip and just plain passive aggressiveness. I am a wounded disciple myself.

Jesus warns us time and again about looking to our own selves first. To clean up our own hearts rather than judging another’s intentions. As we look at those with unclean hands, have we taken time to look at our own? Before we start trying to shape up someone else’s affairs, have we looked at our own?

God knows us: our drippy places, our wounded places, our prideful places; and God knows how earth-shatteringly human we are. Transformation occurs only when we are finally able to look at our own brokenness.

What part of your heart is broken?

What part of your heart needs to be healed, cleansed, re-formed?