O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
Psalm 139:1-3
… he knows the secrets of the heart …
Psalm 44:21
… you alone know the hearts of all men.
1 Kings 8:39
The Lord searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts.
1 Chronicles 28:9
You know me, O Lord; you see me and test my thoughts about you.
Jeremiah 12:3
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
Matthew 10:29-31
When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.”
Luke 19:5
So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
Luke 19:6
When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer. Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity.
Psalm 32:3-5
Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.
James 5:16
Depression rates: 1999-2019: 33% increase
Teens hopelessness: 2009-2021: 44% increase
No close friends: 1990-2020: quadrupled
54% Americans: no one knows them well
36% Americans feel lonely most of the time
In theory, it should be possible to repair yourself alone. In theory, it should be possible to understand yourself, especially the deep broken parts of yourself, through introspection. But the research clearly shows that introspection is overrated.
David Brooks, How To Know a Person
The purposes of a person’s HEART are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out.
Proverbs 20:5
As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.
Proverbs 27:19
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
John 4:13-15
Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
Colossians 4:6
Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”
Luke 19:8
Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house …”
Luke 19:9
