Reflecting Your Heart to others.

As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man.

Proverbs 27:19

I often wonder how this verse is me. I wonder how giving and caring my heart is to others. I have seen many caring people in my life and wished I had half their heart and ability to care for people as much as they do. I often find myself being selfish with my time. I have found my time by myself has become very limited with three kids. Me and Shannon don't get alot of quiet time with each other or very limited time to be by ourselves individually. But we chose to have three kids and we knew our time would be limited when it came to private time. But it's worth more to us to have time with the kids and less time with each other or by ourselves. But that's not what it's talking about here. It's stating how does your heart reflect you by giving your time to others in need or just showing concern to another by a kind word or gesture.

I lack big time in this department, I see what others do in the church and how they give their heart by giving their time to anybody who is in need. Thus the love and concern they show reflects who they are by how big and loving their heart is.

Jesus I know, is what this verse states to us today. When he saw the sick his heart had mercy and healing unto them. When he was tired and would go for some rest the crowd would continue to follow his heart. He would get up and continue to give his time to the people because of his loving and merciful heart. His heart reflected the man he was, the Son of the Living God.

We need to show who we are by our giving and loving heart we are supposed to have in Christ. Thus it reflects not only who we are, but what we are supposed to be.

Our Sunday morning bible class has some very kind hearted people in it. They want to be the example they need to be in Christ. We are slowly getting to know them and how much they care about giving their heart to each other. It is a class that has made us all cry many times with stories that have been shared some happy and some not. But it is a class where communication is key. They want to know the heart of each individual and let each one there know that they are going to be there for each other.

We all need to share our hearts to everybody so we can show the world the reflection of the man, Jesus! I'm going to try and give more of my time and my heart to others, before that time is up.