The Eyes of My Heart

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The recompense for pride. Humanity is brought low, each person is humbled, and haughty eyes are humbled. Isaiah 5:15 Not many people understand that God calls us to be humble. I have seen so much pride in people over the course of the last decade. It’s one thing to run away from pride but what…

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God’s heart. Learn to do what is good. Pursue justice. Correct the oppressor. Defend the rights of the fatherless. Plead the widow’s cause. Isaiah 1:17 Sometimes our lives lie in ruins because our sin devastated us. God’s heart beats for justice. He wants to work it on our behalf but we need to live it…

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Treasure every day. Remove sorrow from your heart, and put away pain from your flesh, because youth and the prime of life are fleeting. Ecclesiastes 11:10 Life is very short. Oftentimes, we get entangled in unnecessary sorrow that obscures our ability to enjoy it. Instead of looking at the bad around us, let’s look at…

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Suffering can produce wisdom. The heart of the wise is in a house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in a house of pleasure. Ecclesiastes 7:4 There are lessons in life that we can only learn through suffering. God is never the author of pain but He masterfully weaves the bad in our…

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What drives you? I saw that all labor and all skillful work is due to one person’s jealousy of another. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind. Ecclesiastes 4:4 Humans are competitive in nature. We have a strong tendency to compare ourselves to one another and it’s a fierce force that drives…

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Sorrow can be a good thing. For with much wisdom is much sorrow; as knowledge increases, grief increases. Ecclesiastes 1:18 We shy away from sorrow and turn our faces from grief. The more we know, the more we suffer in this world but how can this be encouraging? Sometimes God chooses our lives for a…