What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers."
1 Kings 8:37-40
There are several things here that stuck me, but I think my favorite is the juxtaposition of physical plague with knowing the plague of our own hearts.
During this historical time of plague, we need to know our own hearts, and the plagues thereof, for ourselves. This is important so that what we are spreading around us is a good thing rather than a bad thing--so that we are worried about how we stand before the Lord, or in other words our spiritual health, rather than being worried about the physical threats to our health.
Let's look to God and his temple and live according to what we believe and who we want to be (which is why we need to understand what that is). As we draw closer to God, he will know our hearts as well, and bless us.
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