Innocence of heart

I will never be able to say that I am completely innocent in my heart. I'm human, and have sinned. But I can still try my best to make the thoughts of my heart innocent. 

I was given that reminder tonight, through my conversation with The Lord, and the reading He took me to.

I came with a feeling of, I suppose, slight anger and jealousy. Then I read. And my heart was put at peace, and contentment. 

How I love how my Daddy has something so beautiful to share with me when my heart hurts.

Job 4-5

New International Version (NIV)

Job 4

Eliphaz

 ¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

 ² “If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?

   But who can keep from speaking?

³ Think how you have instructed many,

   how you have strengthened feeble hands.

⁴ Your words have supported those who stumbled;

   you have strengthened faltering knees.

⁵ But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;

   it strikes you, and you are dismayed.

⁶ Should not your piety be your confidence

   and your blameless ways your hope?

 ⁷ “Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?

   Where were the upright ever destroyed?

⁸ As I have observed, those who plow evil

   and those who sow trouble reap it.

⁹ At the breath of God they perish;

   at the blast of his anger they are no more.

¹⁰ The lions may roar and growl,

   yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.

¹¹ The lion perishes for lack of prey,

   and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

 ¹² “A word was secretly brought to me,

   my ears caught a whisper of it.

¹³ Amid disquieting dreams in the night,

   when deep sleep falls on people,

¹⁴ fear and trembling seized me

   and made all my bones shake.

¹⁵ A spirit glided past my face,

   and the hair on my body stood on end.

¹⁶ It stopped,

   but I could not tell what it was.

A form stood before my eyes,

   and I heard a hushed voice:

¹⁷ ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God?

   Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?

¹⁸ If God places no trust in his servants,

   if he charges his angels with error,

¹⁹ how much more those who live in houses of clay,

   whose foundations are in the dust,

   who are crushed more readily than a moth!

²⁰ Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces;

   unnoticed, they perish forever.

²¹ Are not the cords of their tent pulled up,

   so that they die without wisdom?’

Job 5

 ¹ “Call if you will, but who will answer you?

   To which of the holy ones will you turn?

² Resentment kills a fool,

   and envy slays the simple.

³ I myself have seen a fool taking root,

   but suddenly his house was cursed.

⁴ His children are far from safety,

   crushed in court without a defender.

⁵ The hungry consume his harvest,

   taking it even from among thorns,

   and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

⁶ For hardship does not spring from the soil,

   nor does trouble sprout from the ground.   

⁷ Yet man is born to trouble

   as surely as sparks fly upward.

 ⁸ “But if I were you, I would appeal to God;

   I would lay my cause before him.

⁹ He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed,

   miracles that cannot be counted.

¹⁰ He provides rain for the earth;

   he sends water on the countryside.

¹¹ The lowly he sets on high,

   and those who mourn are lifted to safety.

¹² He thwarts the plans of the crafty,

   so that their hands achieve no success.

¹³ He catches the wise in their craftiness,

   and the schemes of the wily are swept away.

¹⁴ Darkness comes upon them in the daytime;

   at noon they grope as in the night.

¹⁵ He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth;

   he saves them from the clutches of the powerful.

¹⁶ So the poor have hope,

   and injustice shuts its mouth.

 ¹⁷ “Blessed is the one whom God corrects;

   so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

¹⁸ For he wounds, but he also binds up;

   he injures, but his hands also heal.

¹⁹ From six calamities he will rescue you;

   in seven no harm will touch you.

²⁰ In famine he will deliver you from death,

   and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

²¹ You will be protected from the lash of the tongue,

   and need not fear when destruction comes.

²² You will laugh at destruction and famine,

   and need not fear the wild animals.

²³ For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field,

   and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

²⁴ You will know that your tent is secure;

   you will take stock of your property and find nothing missing.

²⁵ You will know that your children will be many,

   and your descendants like the grass of the earth.

²⁶ You will come to the grave in full vigor,

   like sheaves gathered in season.

²⁷ “We have examined this, and it is true.

   So hear it and apply it to yourself.”

 How wonderful it is, to hear Your voice, O' Lord.

Alyssa