What's in your mind and heart?

The only one who knows the answer to that question is you…and God. Sometimes we are attacked and criticized for things we say and do, and yet we know we have done them from a pure heart and a clean conscience. At other times, we are praised and honored, yet an honest look at our heart and mind would reveal that our motives and actions were not as pure and clean as one might think.

In Psalm 139:23-24, the psalmist, King David, says, “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.” David’s ple...