One of the most difficult things to live with in this world is a heart that condemns. When we feel guilty, unworthy, culpable and indited because of actions or words from the past, no amount of advice seems to bring us out of this darkness. John the apostle knows there are those with whom he is sharing on the topic of love who have regrets from the past. Some of our actions have been regrettable, and some of our ways can never be corrected. However in First John chapter three and verse twenty, John gives us this great hope:
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
Yesterday we shared together on having our hearts assured, and today we read where John mentions the condemned heart. Whenever we have a heart that condemns us, note this: “God is greater than our heart.” God is so looking out for us and our ability to have fellowship with Him that even if we sometimes feel guilty, ashamed or indited within, He is greater. We only have to look to other scriptures to Jesus' words for more assurance. He said in the book of the gospel of John in chapter three and verse seventeen:
“God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.”
God's intention is not condemnation, but rather salvation. People in the world who do not believe in Jesus are already in a condemned state. Look at Jesus' words in the gospel of John chapter three and verse eighteen:
He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
However, Paul the apostle writes these great words in the book of Romans in chapter eight and verse one:
[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
God knows everything. He knows every wrong word, every wrong action, and every wrong thing that we have ever said or done. He hasn't been surprised by our actions in any way because He already knew these things before we ever said or did them, and this is His exchange, because of what Jesus did for us, He does not condemn us. We may condemn ourselves, and our hearts may sometimes torture us, but He is greater than our hearts.
Oh dear ones, let us today give praise to the one who is greater than our condemn hearts, and receive the hope that God is so in love with us that He supersedes any torture that we may have within.
Next time we will take a look at what happens when our hearts do not condemn us, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.
Until tomorrow...there is more...
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