Psalm 139: 23-24
Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts, and see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
Proverbs 20: 27
The spirit of Man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all the innermost parts of his being.
This was my prayer several years ago, and it is still my prayer today.
Have you ever asked God to shine His searchlight into your most secret and private parts of your life and thinking? It's a scary prayer, to be sure. But I consider it necessary, to be the child of God He wants me to be.
I know that my Father loves me more than I can imagine, and His ways for me surpass anything I can choose for myself.
So I want to think His thoughts, have His attitudes toward me, and do all the things that will fulfill His pleasure for me according to His Plan of the Ages.
My prayer:
O my Father, I pray that You would shine Your lamp into my innermost parts to show me my anxious thoughts and whatever hurtful way I still harbor within me; that I may confess and forsake every way in me that does not conform to Your pleasure in me!
Then I will be prepared to share with others Your gracious and patient and gentle care for each of us, and You in me will draw others to Yourself, and sinners to repentance.
And God will receive all the credit--all the glory and honor and praise--for everything He has done; to complete every project, to finish every plan, to achieve all His goals in everything He has made in all Creation.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
