Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart. http://goo.gl/VTtaC0  Joy is found when our heart reflects His.

I often wonder at the diversity of opinion about everything.  I ran across this nearly incomprehensible polling result today:

‘4% of voters say they believe “lizard people” control our societies by gaining political power’

I had not heard of these lizard people before, but there is plenty of internet flotsam to occupy those in need of wasting time. How can this be?

It’s quite simple, really. Humans unrestrained by Authority generate all sorts of silliness, and yes, monstrous evil. Think back to your childhood. Did you ever consider flying to the moon in an appropriately equipped cardboard box? Did you write Santa expecting him to have the time and desire to fulfill your every wish? Did you confidently anticipate a romantic crush to be reciprocated? Did you ever boil over with upset regarding a low grade on a project you spent a whole 19 minutes getting together? Did you ever attempt practice of the voodoo doll to inflict vengeance on an enemy? Our fantasies should be proven true if we desire it so, or such is the thought of a child.

Even those who are not ‘lizard people theorists’ share the common addiction of justifying the person in the mirror. We are magnificent purveyors of reasons why we are always right. But we are not always right. In fact we are quite often wrong, not that we would know it by ourselves.

And this is grace: God ‘weighs’ our hearts. He is not interested in the heart’s absolute mass, he is passionate about it being made truly right. God is so passionate, in fact, that He paid the just premium for a heart transplant. Our cold-stone heart for His heart, delivered in the flesh. When we see our world through His heart of compassion and sacrifice, joy between us is the natural result. All the justifications for our self-righteous hatred are pushed into the ‘lizard people’ rubbish bin.

Thanks be to God for the gift of Jesus, the very heart of the Father.

And I will give you a new heart and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statues and be careful to obey my rules. (Ezekiel 36:26-27, ESV)