A Filtered Heart

I'm sure you have heard the old expression "looking at the world through rose colored glasses". Well, last night I was pondering this and I had a new thought about looking at the world. We all know that a filter cleanses the impurities out of what ever it is being used for, such as an air filter causes the air to be cleaner or a water filter causes the water to be purified. Have you ever considered that Jesus is the filter over our heart? He comes in and cleanses us, caps off our heart and filters what comes through it. When we see the world through that filtered heart, washed white as snow, it changes our perspective. If we allow that filter to do it's work to purify our life...we will no longer walk in judgment of others, we will walk in love. When people do us wrong, we can remember the wrongs that we ourselves have committed and the forgiveness that we received from our Father in heaven. We will not try to take punishment into our own hands. Through that filter of love, our hearts will be moved to pray for those who are against us. Out of that filtered heart we will love passionately, care deeply, share abundantly and consider others before ourselves.

My status on face book yesterday was, "If you want to move the heart of God...move your heart closer to God."  The closer we are to God the better the filter works. If we want to see the power of God released in the earth and walk in what Jesus himself, said we could walk in, then we must pray with our whole heart, "…The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective" (James 5:16). When we pray prayers that are not filled with faith and if we are holding things in our hearts against others, then our filter is clogged. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9). The good news is...it only takes a minute to clean the filter. The Lord is full of loving favor and pity, slow to anger and great in loving-kindness. (Psalm 145:8)

Looking through rose colored glasses is not a bad thing to do...it simply means to see the world as a better place or being optimistic and hoping for the best. A filtered heart, is faith in action and looking through this filter of Love, will enable us...not to just hope for a better world...but to be a light in this world. I hope we can share in seeing the world, through a Christ filtered heart.