God is looking for devotion in your heart toward Him, not for your perfection or performance

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God is looking for devotion in your heart toward Him, not for your perfection or performance

God is looking for devotion in your heart toward Him, not for your perfection or performance

“For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” (1Sam 16:7)

“Delight yourself also in the LORD, and He shall give you the desires of your heart.” (Ps 37:4)

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”

“but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart” (Eph 6:6)

“that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Rom 10:9)

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart” (Prov 3:5)

“Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the LORD Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.” (Deut 4:39)

“And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.” (Deut 6:6)

“And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.” (Deut 8:2)

“And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes which I command you today for your good?” (Deut 10:12-13)

“to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.” (Deut 30:6)

“And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil. And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat and be filled.” (Deut 11:13-15)

“for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.” (Deut 13:13)

“and have prepared your heart to seek God.” (2Chr 19:3)

“And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.” (Jer 29:13)

“But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” (Deut 4:29)

“Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart” (1Pet 1:22)

“Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are pure in heart.” (Ps 73:1)

Reading: 1Sam 16-18; Lk 2