⚖️🌅 _MORNING DOSE _
" *MENS REA*"
(What's the state of your HEART?)
What exactly is mens rea?
Mens rea is Latin for “guilty mind.”
In criminal law, it refers to the state of mind that accompanied the prohibited conduct, that is the state of your mind before committing a crime.
For example, imagine two people cause the same physical harm.
*Person A* deliberately or intentionally attacks someone intending to cause serious injury.
*Person B* accidentally or mistakenly causes the same injury without intending to hurt anyone.
The physical result may look similar, but their mental states are different, this is very important in law but nevertheless only *GOD* truly sees the heart of men! Human beings generally judge what they can see But we don't have direct access to another person's heart....
“ *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* The law may ask for the reasons behind an act but God goes deeper by searching the heart himself!
Christianity isn't merely about performing the right actions. God cares about the motive behind the action. You can apologize and still be planning revenge.
The action may look good to people, while the motive is wrong before God.
And that gives us a powerful personal examination:
“If God examined not just what I do, but why I do it, what would he find?
I remain 👇
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