This morning, I woke up with the thought, “Search me, O God” and I asked myself, “how often do I ask you, Lord, to search my heart?” I thought about that question and answered it, “not often enough.”
As you read this, take a moment to reflect and ask yourself, how often you ask God to search what’s in the depths of your heart. And, like me, you will probably realize it isn’t often enough.
I know that “living for God” requires much discipline of self. It isn’t a game, we enjoy now and then and bring it out when we want to play and put it away when we tire of it! Life, overall is a gift and mine is more meaningful since I gave it to the Lord. I don’t even want to imagine what it would be like without Him in it.
He’s the center of it. Sometimes, however, for lack of discipline I can draw away from the center of who I am in Him! That’s exactly why we must ask; “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.”
I need Him to show me what I must change; and that in itself can be a painful experience. I know the Lord examines my heart and that He knows me through and through. It is me that requires the updated information about myself. And, trust me, He will let me know what I need to develop, change, improve, or let go and stop doing!
“O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away…you know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord.”
The Psalmist continues to write how God “watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Everyday of my life was recorded in your book.”
How can I not but serve the Lord? How can I not but search my heart and refine what’s in it for His glory and cause? How can I not live for Him when every day of my life is in His book?
Pause and reflect at this moment as I have, and bless and thank God that He truly loves us and that He truly is!
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