A heart to heart moment

“I have loved you with an everlasting love”. Find a moment today to gaze and reflect on the heart of Jesus and the love he has for you. Make it a moment, alone with your Savior, where heart is calling to heart.

Are you different

Are you different? Yes, God made us. God made the inside and the outside of each of us. And each of us so much different that the next.  No one has the same finger prints, there are distinctions within the voice vibrations and eye patterns can also be distinguished among people.

And, then we remain different. Some are old, while others are young. We have races of different color and languages from hundreds of countries. Some people are poor while others are quite rich and well off. People are of different sizes, in height and girth. You may be right handed, while I am fortunate to be left handed, but in my right mind. 

And for most of us, we recognize all these differences among all of God’s people. But, why is it then that we quite often judge these very same people because of how they look, dress, cleanliness, grammar and the list goes on.

There is the old adage, unless you’ve walked a mile in my shoes, don’t judge me.

This is what makes God so perfect, he doesn’t even look or care how we differ from others. He loves us in spite of all of our short comings, our looks, our cleanliness, whether we are fat or skinny.  No, God looks into our hearts and a clean heart makes a dwelling place for Jesus. That is why it is so important to keep our heart spiritually in tune with God.

Love me as I have loved you, God tells us, and we must follow God’s example and look at the heart of a person, the inside. Deep inside that heart we will see the face of God.

But, they're not dirty

Wash your hands before you eat!  How many times as a child did you hear those words?  Or, as a parent, how many times did you shout them to your own children.  “Wash your hands before you eat”.  And of course, they would look and examine their hands and say, “why, they’re not dirty”.

To them, they probably didn’t look dirty on the outside, but we all know the germs, the hidden bacteria that makes a home on our hands. So, we wash our hands before you eat so we don’t get sick.

That’s what Jesus is telling us today. It’s not how pretty or clean we look on the outside, it’s what is in our heart. Is our heart clean enough for Jesus to live?

 St. Augustine had a very well known saying, “Late have I loved you, O, Lord”.

It is never too late to clean our hearts, clean the inside, so to speak, and when the inside is clean, then and only then, can we love Jesus with all our heart. Amen