Proverbs 24.12

Don’t excuse yourself by saying, “Look, we didn’t know.” For God understands all hearts, and he sees you. He who guards your soul knows you knew. He will repay all people as their actions deserve. [Proverbs 24.12]

This is an interesting passage. It speaks of the heart - particularly that "God understands all hearts."

The Bible is clear, in stark contrast, that man does not understand or know his own heart:

“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? [Jeremiah 17.9]

The fact that God will "repay people as their actions deserve" should alert us of a Truth that we can use to understand our own lives. What does that mean? To "repay people as their actions deserve" simply means there will be blessings or curses. If there are blessings, then it is obvious that there have been obedient (or faithful) actions. If there are curses, then there have been disobedient (or unfaithful) actions.

To say "We didn't know" is a lie. Why? Because if we are experiencing curses, then we have all the evidence needed to know we have been disobedient!

Here is the scary part: the Church has largely accepted and promoted heretical doctrines that teach that curses happen to good people. These false doctrines deny the obvious glaring implication of guilt that curses reveal. Instead of asking God, "Show me what I have done so that I might repent, because this curse says I have sinned," people have adopted this false doctrine and instead deny guilt and embrace the curse as some sort of lesson from God about suffering - totally missing that curse's call to repentance. Consequently, this false doctrine blatantly ignores Psalm 119.68:

You are good and do only good; teach me your decrees. [Psalm 119.68]

Like it or not, God has set up the universe so that disobedience (unfaithfulness, sin) is punished with curses and obedience (faithfulness) is rewarded with blessings. To excuse this fact with science, politics, medicine, or even religion is an adulterous act of disobedience in itself and worse, an outright denial of God's Word.

Today, we have an explanation for everything. The problem is, God has had an explanation for everything long before ours.

Father, I want a pure heart. I want to forsake my deceptive heart and instead accept what Your Word says . As I encounter any curse, I want to immediately go to repentance because You are good and do only good and anything "not good" is a curse directing me to repentance.