I won’t tell you how long I lived in the South before I realized that, ‘Bless your heart,’ wasn’t actually a blessing.
When we claim to love God but are then cruel and compassionless to others, we become liars and the truth is not in us.
‘Bless your heart.’
When we offer praise to God, while cursing our neighbors, we walk in darkness. When we claim grace for ourselves but demand judgment for everyone else, we are hypocrites.
‘Bless your heart.’
When we are polite and genteel on the outside, while harboring bitterness and malice in our hearts, we deceive ourselves.
‘Bless your heart!’
Subtle deceptions are often the most destructive – counterfeit faith – false piety – wrapping warped behaviors in flowery words – using holy language as a cloak for hatefulness!
We become those of whom the prophet spoke:
8 “ ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; 9 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”
Lord help us. Guard our hearts against hypocrisy.
Good Morning, I love you all!
ihs,
just adam
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