January 27
January 27
Search me, O God, and knew my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.—Psalm 139:23, 24.
IF we should all honestly make this prayer once every day, there would be a good deal of change in our lives. “Search me”—not my neighbor. It is so easy to pray for other people, but so hard to get home to ourselves. I am afraid that we who are busy in the Lord’s work, are especially in danger of neglecting our own vineyard. In this Psalm, David got home to himself.
There is a difference between God searching me and my searching myself. I may search my heart, and pronounce it all right, but when God searches me as with a lighted candle, a good many things will come to light that perhaps I knew nothing about.