God Looks at Your Heart

ByKia Stephens June 28, 2018June 17, 2019

I can pinpoint several times in my life when I thought I was looking cute only to get to the bathroom and discover otherwise. Whether it was several out of place hairs, some unidentified fluid from my children, or an unnoticed rip in my clothing I soon realized I wasn’t as magazine ready as I thought. Sometimes this is the case inwardly as well.

We may take great pains to work on our outward appearance while ignoring the condition of our hearts. Here in this passage, we see, God, sending the prophet Samuel to Bethlehem in search of the next King of Israel. Initially, Samuel saw Eliab’s appearance and thought he was the next King. This was when God reminded him that He is not like man and considers the heart rather than the outward appearance.

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Kia Stephens

Kia Stephens is passionate about helping women who lacked the emotional love and support of their fathers. As a child of divorced parents she knows the damaging impact growing up without a father can have on a woman. Kia candidly shares her story as source of encouragement for others. If you missed the love and affirmation of your father due to death, abuse, abandonment, divorce, or you never knew him THERE IS HOPE. God can and will fill the voids within your soul. Kia has experienced this first hand and today she attributes God's AMAZING grace for enabling her to forgive and love her dad. For this reason, she created The Father Swap blog to be a source of encouragement, healing, and practical wisdom for women dealing with the effects of a physically or emotionally absent father.