Take Your Mask Off!

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Masks.  They're what's on everyone's face these days.  This pandemic has forced  us to be careful with where we go, whom we do business with, how we do business, what we wear, how we wash our hands.  And in doing so, I have often wished I could mask my eyes......to not show the eye rolling I want to do at times in regards to all the political garbage and overly-sensationalized news, the fake news, the real news, the perceived slights and the real tyranny, injustice and violence.  I roll my eyes in my mind and mask my face. but......

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....the eyes are a window into our souls........

.....revealing what is really in our hearts.......

I've been reading in the book of Jeremiah since winter.  I'm taking my time with it and studying key passages that jump out at me.  For chapter 17 this morning, it was the following Scriptures:

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the Lord search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings."

 We can wear a mask (figuratively speaking) to hide our real feelings, our real thoughts, our real intentions and our real selves....but God knows and is not fooled by our masks.

God sees beyond our false front.

He looks right into our soul...and knows every thought, feeling and desire.  He knows our jealousies, dishonesty, rage/anger, sadness/depression, judgmental/racist attitudes, selfish ambitions, lying. 

He sees it all.  And will judge it all.  But....He also will forgive it all when we take off our mask and lay everything before Him.  Bare it all.

Oh the redeeming love of Jesus Christ. 

God not only looks at our hearts....He can renew it and transform it.

Will you take your mask off today??