God knows the secrets of the heart

God knows the secrets of the Heart.

One’s heart, as used in Scripture, refers to something more than the physical organ that beats, pumping blood and life-giving oxygen to every part of your body. The Bible uses the word to describe an aspect of God’s wondrous creation even more spectacular and critical to your well-being – the central part of your inner being where God desires to dwell and rule righteously.

The heart! Who knows their own heart for sure? When it comes right down to it, none of us really know our own heart as well as we think we do. The prophet Jeremiah 17:9-10, wrote,“The heart is deceitful above all things,and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart; I test the mind, even to give every man according to His ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

The heart is the source from which both affections and actions come, often overruling your mind and misdirecting your will.Until God is allowed to redeem and rule your heart,it will remain unholy and unruly.

Your heart can lead you to God or turn you from Him. God begins in your heart to accomplish His work of redeeming, and cleansing, and changing you.“And I will give them singleness of heart  and put a new spirit within them. I will take away their hearts of stone and give them tender hearts instead, so they will obey My laws and regulations. Then they will truly by My people, and I will be their God.”Ezekiel 11:19-20 .
Your heart has to be right before your relationship with God and others can be right.
Your heart’s cry must be as the Psalmist pleaded,“Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”Psalm 139:23-24.

God uses ordinary circumstances to expose repressed feelings, carefully controlled reactions, buried emotions, old grudges and resentments, hurtful jealousies, suppressed anger and fears, or habitual behaviors.
Those tests in everyday life are not for God’s enlightenment, but to reveal the secrets of your heart for redemption, not destruction.God knows your heart; there are no secrets from Him hidden there.

You may try to hide things there, but will not succeed. Invite God, will test your heart so that you will know what is hidden.