An Awareness Toward Truth

Replacing God at the Center

In the secular world we live in today, God has been pushed out of the center of the universe. Many argue that religion cannot be trusted because it has been misused by humans for control and manipulation. Fair enough.

But why then do we trust science with our whole hearts, when it too can be abused by the same flawed humanity—full of bias, corruption, and the thirst for power?

Both systems, it seems, are vulnerable to the same weakness: they mix fragments of truth with distortions born from our corrupted hearts.

Albert Einstein once said: “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” (Einstein, 1941, Science, Philosophy and Religion: A Symposium). Both, in isolation, fall short.

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Do We Truly Know Our Own Hearts?

Why do we believe that we fully know our own hearts?
Do we ever test them?

The Bible warns that in the last days, knowledge will increase and the pace of change will only accelerate (Daniel 12:4). Yet one thing remains constant—besides God’s Word: the enemy’s strategy. From the Garden of Eden until now, he has twisted truth with lies to deceive us.

Take Eve, for example. The serpent said:
“You will not surely die… you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:4–5).

Half truth, half lie. Humanity did gain moral awareness—but at the cost of eternal life with God. Death entered the world (Romans 5:12). Yet even then, God gave us a choice—not robotic obedience, but the freedom to love Him willingly.

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The Same Lies Today

Satan still uses the same tactics. Today we hear:

• “Just be a good person.”
  
• “Love is love.”
  

But how can we know what is truly good, or what love really means, apart from God who is the very source of love (1 John 4:8)?

Every religion claims to offer a path, but only Christ—the “way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6)—bridges the gap between our sin and God’s holiness.

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Testing Our Hearts

So let us test our hearts (2 Corinthians 13:5). Let us confront the lies we’ve believed and place our hope in the One who is truly good—the God who gave His own Son to rescue us.

Jeremiah 17:10
“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

We can lie to others or even to ourselves, but we cannot lie to God. He examines our hearts daily (Psalm 7:9; Proverbs 17:3). He alone is the true “Heart Tester.”

I once thought of myself as a “good enough” person. I built my own belief system by mixing bits of the Bible with science and other religions. But it left me empty. It didn’t work.

I don’t know your background, your family, or your community, so I can’t blame you for the way you see the world. But I can share this: when I finally admitted I couldn’t trust my own heart, I found the One who could be trusted with it.

This is my testimony about truth, lies, and my own heart. The God who found and loved me like no one else also cares for you. This post isn’t a co-incidence. He has placed His love in me today so that I could offer this prayer for you. If one day you find yourself hopeless or burdened by your conscience, I want you to remember this prayer.

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Would you pray with me?

 Dear Lord God,

Thank You for the life of the person reading this prayer right now. I lift her up before You, Father, and I thank You for knowing her completely—her birthday, her joys, her pains, and every moment that has brought her here today, to this place of seeking You.

I ask, Lord, that You reveal to her the hope and grace that can only be found in You. Show her that there is true hope when we honestly face the condition of our hearts before You. Thank You, Lord, for choosing her before the foundation of the world, for numbering every hair on her head, and for never forsaking her.

I entrust her life into Your hands. May she come to know You as Savior and enter into an everlasting relationship with You, just as You have graciously allowed me to. Use every pain she has experienced for a greater purpose—that she might help others and bear witness to Your love and grace.

Lord, make Your presence alive and real to her as she turns her heart and mind fully toward You. Thank You for being a faithful Father—the loving parent who disciplines with purpose those You love. And thank You for removing our hearts of stone and giving us hearts of flesh, so that we may grow to be more like You and extend Your love to those You are calling to Yourself.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Heartwork:

Try to find someone today that you think is close to God and send them a message or give that person a call, you never know how your next steps can be already being planned by God for your good.