Friday Reading: Psalm 139:23-24
Key Verse: Psalm 139:23
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts,
Devotion:
Are you brave enough to learn the truth about yourself? Most people think that they know themselves but they only know themselves in the light of their own lives because they do not have much to compare themselves to. There are some who will travel the world and find out so many cultures and experiences that they then think that they can find their true selves within. But what people so often forget is the basic scientific principles by which humanity says they exist – or should exist. In order to have any comparison we have to have a base-line with which we can compare things with. As most scientists will tell you, unless you know that that base-line is solid, then anything that you suppose after that point is now invalid!
How long will man continue to hold up to principles that are built on nothing less that supposition and theory? We need to make sure that we do start with the truth and the only proof that we have that anything is the proof in the beginning is God’s Word. Everything else stems from that or is written by man in opposition to it. Should we therefore not start with that base-line? And if we are starting with that base-line then should we not be following it?
No matter how we look at life and humanity we must always come back to the premise that there is a God and that God is the one who knows us rather than the other way round. We continue to search for things in our lives whereas God already know those things and all the imaginations in our minds. If we want to be able to seek out our ways then we have to simply compare them with God’s ways as written down in His Word. When we do that we will very quickly realise that we are the ones doing things wrong and that we need Him in our lives to search out what we do wrong and to help with putting things right. Our ways should be His ways. Our searching should be done through His guidance. Our world needs to be based on His truth. Only then can we find out what our lives should be like because He designed them in the beginning!
Points to Ponder:
Do you know yourself?
Do you compare yourself with God’s ways?
