Proverbs - He Ponders Our Hearts

Proverbs 21:2

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.

To know that we generally think our decisions are good is wise to know.  Every way of our lives seems right when we evaluate them according to our own understanding.  This warns us that our judgment and evaluation is not always true to the core.  Here the Lord tells us that the Lord ponders the hearts. The word ponders here means to balance or measure out by weight or dimension. The Lord puts our hearts on a scale and measures them by His own value system.  We must not just bring our actions before Him, but keep our hearts sensitive to the Lord’s value system.  When the Lord measures our hearts He weighs the weight and measures the dimension.  He looks at what is heavy on our hearts and how much we open or close our hearts to the things that are before us. .  A great place to be is in a place where we are crying out the Lord to search our hearts and cause us have hearts that are like His.  Taking the time to sit before the Lord when we make that meal, or clean the house and ask the Lord to weigh our hearts and put in what we need and take out what shouldn't be there.  Our God is able to show us things within us that we might not know are there.  He is able to help us not be hard on ourselves when we have weights that are too much and to move upon us when our hearts are neglecting weightier matters.  Let us not trust our own eyes, let us spend the time to quiet our evaluations and listen for the Lord’s evaluations. His scales are always balanced and His judgments are righteous.