{"id":8,"date":"2018-11-06T15:58:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T23:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrate.bettersermons.org\/?p=8"},"modified":"2020-06-01T11:41:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:41:24","slug":"god-sees-inside-of-our-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/god-sees-inside-of-our-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"God Sees Inside of Our Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Objects:<\/strong>\u00a0A hardcover book, preferably one with a plain, one-color cover.<\/p>\n

Lesson:<\/strong>\u00a0 We do not judge others, because only God Sees into a person’s heart.<\/p>\n

Outline:
\n<\/strong>
\n1.\u00a0A person\u2019s appearance doesn\u2019t tell us how a person thinks and feels.
\n2.\u00a0What\u2019s inside a person is what God sees.
\n3.\u00a0We must be slow to judge others, and try to see people as God sees them.<\/p>\n

Do you like books? Some of my best friends are books. I have one of them here with me today. It\u2019s a rather ordinary looking book, doesn\u2019t look very exciting. But there\u2019s an old saying, \u2018You can\u2019t judge a book by its cover.\u201d<\/p>\n

What that means is, you can\u2019t tell whether a book is interesting or not just by looking at the cover. You have to get inside a book to know what it is really like. You have to read it.<\/p>\n

People are like that too. You can\u2019t tell what a person is really like just by observing his or her appearance. You can\u2019t know whether someone is kind or interesting or a person you would like to have as a friend just by looking at the person\u2019s clothes or appearance. You have to get to know the person, talk to the person, find out what the person thinks and feels.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important for us to try to really get to know other people, because that is what God does. The Bible says that God searches the hearts of men (and women) (Romans 8:27). That means that God looks deep inside human beings instead of evaluating us by the way we look on the surface. God knows every thought of ours. God knows us the way we truly are, not just the way we seem to be.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we should be slow to judge other people. We may see people who aren\u2019t dressed very nicely or who don\u2019t look very friendly and immediately think, \u201cThose are bad people; those are people I know I don\u2019t like.\u201d And, we could be making a big mistake about those people.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s always better not to judge others and instead to try to understand the thoughts and feelings of others, to get to know them the way God knows them. People are like books, you have to look inside to know what is really there.
\n______________________________<\/p>\n

Excerpted\u00a0from\u00a0Elder’s Guide<\/em>, Volume A, General Conference Ministerial Association. Reprinted with permission. Visit the Ministerial Resource Center,<\/span>\u00a0GC Ministerial Association<\/a>\u00a0to purchase this\u00a0and other\u00a0helpful resources. Better Sermons \u00a9 2005-2008. Click here for\u00a0<\/span>usage guidelines<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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