When Our Hearts Condemn Us

This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. - 1 John 3:19-20

Take a moment and reflect - how often does your heart condemn you? You know what that feels like - when you call yourself ‘stupid’ or ‘ugly’ or when you feel like your whole life is one big mistake. It’s when you mercilessly replay your failures (usually it’s unintentional), when you’ve named yourself by the unkind title that someone else called you, when you simply don’t feel like you’re enough. That’s what it means when “our hearts condemn us.”

Now read those lines again - about God being bigger than your heart and knowing the true truth about you. You are beloved, you are worth God’s attention, you are God’s most precious prize, God’s pride and glory even.

Would you let that sink in today? Just imagine what would change if you really, really believed what God said about you instead of the condemnation of your own heart. Ask for God’s help to let in the goodness and to see your own worth.