Lead Me In the Way Everlasting!

Do we want God to search our hearts?

Do we want God to try us?

Do we want God to know our thoughts?

These are questions we need to ask ourselves. If you readily answered yes to all three questions that's amazing. If you hesitated on any of them perhaps it was because you know the wickedness of your own heart, of your own spiritual weakness, of your own thoughts. When we recognize the wickedness in ourselves the tendency we have is to want to deny its existence. When we deny something we are often pretending it doesn't exist, right? Not always, but have you ever had anyone point out something about your personality that you didn't like and simply refused to acknowledge? Close examination may reveal the truth of their statement about us. There is the chance the person is wrong too, not everyone is right. Have you ever heard the statement- you protest too much? Meaning the more a person protests the more something might me true that they are denying.  Recognizing our wickedness is necessary, it's truthful.

Is your heart pure? Most likely not. Do you want it to be pure? Prayerfully, yes.

Do you like when you recognize God trying you and your faith? The trying often involves trials and tribulations, things we don't like to experience. The answer to that question is probably, no because who likes to experience trials and tribulations? But at the same time you may want to be tried by God because you do in fact want to be God's.

Contemplate your thoughts, are they worthy of God? Too often our thoughts are not on things of God. Too often we know selfishness fills our minds and out of that selfishness we don't think pleasant things. Silent anger, resentment, possibly fear, self-pity all these can go on in our minds.

We recognize our wickedness in the light of God's purity and we need this.

Psa 139:23  Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 

Psa 139:24  And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. 

We need God to search the depths of our hearts so that not a single part of our heart goes unsearched. We need Him to search our hearts no matter how evil we believe they are, in fact we need His searching all the more if we are convinced of the evil wickedness of our hearts. God's searching isn't a mindless search, we want His searching our hearts for a reason. We want God to try us and know our thoughts because NOT to have God trying us would mean we are not being perfected by Him. To not want God in our lives knowing our every thought has to say something about us, and probably something we wouldn't like to realize.

SEARCH ME O GOD, KNOW MY HEART!

TRY ME O GOD, KNOW MY THOUGHTS!

SEE IF THERE IS ANY WICKEDNESS IN ME!

LEAD ME IN THE WAY EVERLASTING!

This is my plea, my prayer, my hope, my desire! Lead in the way…everlasting!