FAITH CAPSULE: Are you assuming the ability to hide from God?
Proverbs 4
God alone creates all.
No one can hide from God in all ways of life.
How can a creature hide from the creator?
Jeremiah 1:5 said it all, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
Are you assuming the ability to hide from God?
Search and know how to live for God to gain and retain the hand of God in your life.
No heart that can hide from God.
It is the heart of all that presents one before God.
Every heart does not hide before God, who sees all about the doing of the heart.
Genesis 6:5 testifies how the heart of all exposes the wickedness before God. “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
Keep in mind that no one can precisely see what another heart is doing.
Jeremiah 17:9 testifies, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?”
The Bible points out that the heart is where the rise and fall begin.
Satan makes the heart a target, a launching pad to attack.
Judas spent time with Jesus, yet his heart made him available as a playground for Satan.
The book of Luke 22:3-4 states,“Then Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve. So he went his way and conferred with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray Him to them.”
Satan went after the heart of Judas to establish his plan of betraying Jesus.
Invariably, faith will fail when the enemy attacks and gains a position in the heart.
Peter was close to Jesus and could also have been a victim of the devil. Once, Jesus said to him, “…Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. “But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.” (Luke 22:31-32)
The only proven target for the enemy to strike is the heart.
Ananias and Sapphira sell their possession to buttress the fellowship but lie about the proceedings, “But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep part of the price of the land for yourself? (Acts 5:3)
Evil doing is the business of Satan, and he has taken the hearts of all as a target.
The word encourages, “Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23)
Meditate on the word of God to disengage Satan from the heart.
Keep the heart diligently from evil by meditating on the word of God.
Prayer for today: Ask God for enablement to keep the heart diligently.