Psalm 139: 23-24 –“Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
David was aware that he couldn’t recognize all of his own sin. Some of it went much deeper than he could possibly see for himself. So he invited God to search his heart, to penetrate those deep, hard-to-reach places where sin tends to hide and grow inconspicuously.
“God, if anything in there offends you, point it out to me so that I may repent.”
There are times when I am convicted by the Holy Spirit, but there are also times when my sin goes completely unnoticed by me. I cannot possibly be as thorough as God at finding it, because God knows me better than I know myself!
Some of us are eager to ask God to examine others’ hearts and point out their sin to them. But very few of us are interested in being God’s examinees ourselves. When we pray, how often do we invite God to search our own hard-to-reach crevices where sin loves to hide in our hearts? Do we ever ask Him to reveal it to us, like David did?
So for today, let us pray and ask God to examine our hearts. He won’t be taken aback by what he finds.
But we might.
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