God has a heart and as He made us in His own image, you and I do as well. There is a difference though. God only has truth in His heart and you and I, well, we don’t.
“21And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, ‘I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.’” – Genesis 8:21 (ESV)
See the verse above and the reference God makes to the heart of man, “man’s heart is evil from his youth”. So we are evil in our heart. We go against the LORD and man at any chance we can. We are not worthy of any mercy or grace from the LORD. It starts early on and carries through our entire life in this world.
But the LORD, He is full of truth and honesty. See the same verse above the LORD’s words, “I will never again curse the ground because of man”. Even as we are evil from early on, God is not and works around us and our evil for the good of the world.
But Trevor, how is it then that people and animals are destroyed if God will not destroy it? I hear you and all I have for that is that God is a righteous and just God. He will still issue justice where it is due. Although that is the thing, it is due and directed and not just as it was, complete. God did not indicate that He would not issue justice, only that He would not completely destroy it all because of the sins of the one.
And that is the difference in God and man. God is truth from His heart to His actions where man is not. God makes promises and keeps them, where man makes promises (until circumstances change) and then goes against the promise for what is for him. God is truth from before the beginning.
“1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was in the beginning with God.” – John 1:1-2 (ESV)
“6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.” – John 14:6a (ESV)
What is your view of truth in your heart? Are you of the view that you are truth inside and out? What if you looked at God as the only truth from the heart and embraced that we are born with the disposition of evil in our hearts?
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