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What were you thinking? What you thinking? What am I thinking? God knows very well, and He is concerned. We better be concerned!
Our minds are what matter most. We are what we are inwardly.
The Bible has much to say about the human "heart," a word that can be synonymous with "mind," but which emphasizes the functions of thought, attitudes, emotions, personality and character. In the King James Version of the Bible, the word "heart" appears 833 times!
God judges us largely by what is taking place in our hearts. "For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart" (1 Samuel 16:7).
In the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5 through 7, Jesus Christ made it clear that obeying God with our thoughts is as important as obeying with our words and actions. Thus the spirit of the law is as important as the letter of the law. No wonder God hates hypocrisy. Speaking to hypocritical religious leaders, Jesus said, "Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness" (Matthew 23:28).
Thoughts are seldom hidden forever—they usually lead to words and actions. "For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks" (Luke 6:45).
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