Opening Up To God!

Psalm (139:23-24)

Search me, 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.

Who but God has a CV and a track record like that? Looking back, Paul recalled times when there wasn't enough money in the kitty and he had to go to work as a tent maker in order to support his ministry. He could remember the whippings, the stoning's and the betrayal at the hands of those he trusted. But listen to what he says about it:

'Therefore, having obtained help from God, to this day I stand.' Acts (26:22). Jeremiah felt the same way: 'Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness' Lamentations (3:22-23). No doubt, you failed God at some points last year, but did He ever once fail you? No, and He won't fail you this year either, so trust Him. A. B. Simpson wrote: 'How often we trust each other, and only doubt our Lord. We take the words of mortals, yet distrust His word; But, oh, what light and glory, would shine o'er all our days; if we always would remember, God means just what He says.

The desired result of this probing is set forth in the last verse, where David asks God to see if there is any way of pain or grief in him. It is not so that God might know the results, but that he himself - David - might know what God discovered. When you submit yourself to the scalpel of the surgeon for an exploratory operation, you do it not just for the sake of the physician. You want to know the findings yourself, don't you? You are interested in what is discovered. David finally states that it is his desire to be led in the "everlasting way," meaning the path of righteousness. He wanted to be a man of God, regardless of the cost.