Appearances

It is hard to know sometime if you really truly know someone but most importantly know someone's heart. People can seem one way when you meet them and then totally change and have another person that they really are. Sometimes people may dress super nice and act like there life is all together when it really is not. Other times people can claim to be christians and honestly not know what it is like to truly love God. It can cause us heartache when we go back and forth not knowing if they are christians or not or if we should trust them. God tells us Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. (James 1:26, 27 NIV). 

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. (1 John 4:1-3, 8 NIV). 

There are people that really don't like christians. We are still called to love everyone even if it means not trying to do anything with them but if we have a chance or run into them we still love them. The best way to know someone's heart is to worship them and pray with them. Just because they have scripture memorized or know the words to pray or can sing along does not mean they truly have accepted Jesus. There is a sense in which you can tell someone's passion when they speak and if it is really and they are really in love with God. But the exciting thing is we are not the judge of others! God is. We do not have to worry about where they will go, we should in that we should be a light and witness in their life. We can impact their lives but not make the final decision for them to follow Christ. That is between a person and God alone. 

It can cause a lot of stress to not really know someone's heart or understand them but from that we should pray for them and talk to them more about Jesus!  God will provide and be faithful. This does not mean to trust and love and do things with every person you ever meet but trust God enough to be in control of your life and other people's lives. One day every heart will know the true honor and glory of God. As followers of God it is important to not be putting on a face to act like we are perfect or have it all together because we really don't! We need to have a heart for God and to serve Him and we don't need to know everything or have the perfect answer always. We are a mess but God cleans us!! God will continue to work on us when we allow Him to and not try to act like we have it all together because eventually we will believe that we do have it all together. We can love God the most when we are humbled.