Search Me

Today's verse has a very special meaning to me because for me it was one of the scariest verse's for me. It is Psalms 139:23-24, and it goes like this.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

I think what scared me so much about this verse when I first read it was the fact that I was asking God, someone that I did not really know at the time, to come into my life and find everything about ME. I compare it to when my wife and I first started dating. She wanted to know everything about me, where I had been, what I had done, and everything in between. For most of us it is hard for us to let someone that we barely know to have all this information and let them get close to us. Maybe because we are scared of being hurt or maybe them finding something out about us that we do not want them to know.

But after I really thought about this verse I came to realize that God already knows everything we have done and everything that we are going to do. Once I put it in that perspective I came to really really love this verse. I found out that once God came into my life and I let Him find my anxious thought and my offensive ways, and started letting Him lead me instead of me trying to walk beside or in front of Him, all things became more clear to me. The Bible says in Romans 8:28 "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those that love Him, who have been called according to His purpose." God will find all you anxious thoughts and offensive ways, if you let Him in and let Him guide you throughout your life. He will lead you everlasting life, if you will let him.

Today I challenge you to ask God to search you and show you the way. Also to learn to trust God through any suffering and believe that He will make every experience to make you more like Jesus.