What does it really mean to truly change? Is encounter with God or huge circumstance in your life that requires you to call him God to intervene on your behalf? Is change a condition of your heart or your life? When we say the Salvation prayer we clearly state for God to forgive us but we also ask Jesus to come into our hearts. So why did so many people want to see an hour change first? Until we submit to God fully we will never see change on the outward sign we can't really walk in our victory into we step into the plans for our lives. Paul sums it up so greatly in Romans 2:28-29 that the circumcision of our hearts involves God cutting away everything inour hearts. But Gods ultimate plan is to cut away everything in our lives that doesn't give him glory. But before we can see any fruit in our lives God must fiest deal with our hearts.
The heart both in Hebrew and Greek culture the heart was seen as a symbol of the ultimate purpose and motivation. The heart is organ at the center of our body. The heart is our innerman, the deepest thoughts, the deepest feelings and the deepest intentions. The heart is the language that God uses to communicate with us. At the center of our heart we are told to love God with all of it. In the New Testament the hearts mean the conscious process of intent thoughts and feelings (not emotions) of a deep intimate level.
In order for our lifes to show change we must first get out hearts intuned with God's heart. Before God can do any possible work in our world we must let God do a deep work in our hearts.Renewal involves both inward renewal of the mind and outward behavior. It is only thorough transformation of our hearts that we can effectively carry out God's purposes.
Very surprising, God should have chosen David. He was the very youngest. Each of the seven sons was paraded before Samuel. One-by-one God said they were not the one He had chosen. One by one these very choice young men were set aside. This young boy who was doing nothing more than looking after the sheep in the fields - an insignificant job you might say - he was brought in. Immediately God said that he was the one - "Get out your oil and pour it on his head; he is the one." It just goes to show how true it is - as appears in my text - that God doesn't judge according to the outward appearance but according to the heart.
When we begin to look at people the way God see's them we will find ourselves transformed. God looks at the heart of his children instead of their actions.
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