Title of the Devotion:
Search Me God
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Bible Verses of the Day: 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.
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NOTES FROM TODAY’S SCRIPTURES:
Relationships take time. And as time passes we can decide whether we want to go to the next level with the person and open up to them. This doesn’t have to be a boyfriend or girlfriend thing, but anyone. We all have someone we can tell our deepest and darkest secrets to, knowing they can keep our confidence.
These friends know when there is something wrong with us even when others don’t. They have been our friends and been around us for so long that they can almost sense our mood. Those who are outside of this circle don’t really know us, at least not like our closest friends.
We might tell them what is going on in our life, but we usually let them know all of the good. We almost wear a mask for them. This is fine; we don’t want to know what every one’s baggage is, just our good friends. Ironically, sometimes we try to wear this mask for Jesus.
When we pray, we might ask Him to forgive us of our little sins and ask for good things to happen to us, but we never ask Him to search us. We don’t tell Him to look deep down in our heart and see if there is anything we are doing wrong. This gets uncomfortable.
When Jesus does this for us, we then make excuses how that isn’t a problem in our life. Or, we have been living our life with it for so long that we can continue in the sin. We forget that Jesus already knows what is in our hearts
(Jeremiah 17:10 *).
Jesus is waiting for us to allow Him to invade our hearts and cleanse us of those grievous ways. We can’t hide our sins from Him, only keep them from Him. And by holding our sin so tightly, we do nothing but embrace our own death, while pushing away the author of eternal life.
Have you let Jesus look into your heart lately?
* But I, the LORD, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.” Jer.17:10
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