I know it could be argued that he was a man after God’s heart only before he sinned. How could a murderer and an adulterer lead God’s people and be called a man after God’s heart? (Acts 13:22). That is why there are some people in the Bible that God speaks highly of, that we wouldn’t and maybe even couldn’t allow to be leaders in our churches. But God knows we are saved, because He knows our hearts. The only way the world can know that is by what it sees.
Once we are saved we are “in Christ” (2 Cor. However, sometimes God does not see us the way men see us – and for that I am glad. So we have both Paul and Peter dealing with clothes that we wear, and we have James dealing with the works that men see. In job interviews, we are told that we can only make one first impression, so we should make sure it is a good one. And men judge character and the heart by what they see. However, there is a lot said in the Scriptures about outward appearance because that is all that men can see. I think that the verse says that outward appearance does not matter to God because He can see the heart. However, I do not think that is what the verse says.
Does Outward Appearance Matter? “The Lord said unto Samuel, ‘Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.’” 1 Samuel 16:7 KJV “God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as He did unto us.” Acts 15:8īased on 1 Samuel 16:7, I often hear that outward appearance does not matter.
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