MONDAY - 31ST MARCH, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
AND SEE IF THERE BE ANY WICKED WAY IN ME
Psalms 139:23-24, KJV
"23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."
It is good to have self confidence. Faith in one self will help you accomplish a lot. Where it is necessary, you must believe in yourself or else, even if God gives you a go ahead, you'd still say you're inadequate (Jer.1:4-8).
However, have you not doubted yourself before? Have you not called yourself to a conferencing where you asked if you were the one who just acted that way you had recently acted? Oooh, are you rolling your eyes or squeezing your nose? Which have you found to do? Is God's GPS locating your address this morning?
The Psalmist cried to God saying, "search me O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!" Why would he pray a prayer like this? It's because even the Psalmist had realized his imperfections (even if it was in time past). Though he longs for righteousness and being made perfect, yet he sees his human errors, weaknesses, frailties and knows that he's prone to stumbling. For this reason (of seeing and knowing his human failures), he called unto God to come and help conduct a search in his life. Also, the psalmist didn't trust himself as being able to conduct a revealing search that'll naked all things in him in all truthfulness. He might fall into self sympathy or excuse himself by being lenient on himself instead of calling a spade a spade. For this added reason, he cried that God would help search him. Indeed, who's trustworthy to reveal the hidden secrets of the heart if not God?
However, his cry and the reason for asking for the flash and search lights of God upon his heart is for a reason - so that God would be able to detect any wicked way in him, cure him of them, lead him in the way everlasting (that has been researched and proven to be true and right for any human being who would find it) while he progressively attains perfection or the stature of Christ.
Do you think you so much believe in yourself? Wait until you rescind your promise or misbehave to your own shock. Such moments hint at the fact that there are still wicked ways in you - traces of the adamic nature. This is what the psalmist saw and which once you sighted, must cry to God for because you really want to be pure and useful in His hands. You never knew you had the wicked way of retaliating in you until a situation brought it out! You were even shocked you could abuse your spouse and was astonished at yourself that this same you could inflate the price for unnecessary gains! You see! That's our Christian brother and sister o! All these and many more acts of ours reveal there's still a wicked way lurking in the secret corner of your heart. Tell God to search your heart and reveal these and many more to you. You'll be shocked to find out that the supposed pure you have scorpions, serpents, broken bottles and razors deep down occupying your heart. You'll suddenly come to the awareness of how much you've wished people evil while believing your heart was right. Look, you need God's search! God must come to scan for all these debris and free you of them before Satan comes to search you and find these wicked ways in you. If you refuse God's search, these wicked ways in you will cloud and mirage the manifestation of Christ's character and the spreading of His aroma through you. For us to be sure that you're not carrying a contrary cargo, you need to be searched and tried even by God (the only trusted One). When you're this squeezed, all these wicked ways (if any is in you) will drop through the renewing of your mind and discipleship (Rom.12:1-2). That way, you're being led in the way everlasting.That way, you would have found what is true to hold unto that cannot fail.
PRAYER/CONFESSION: Search and try me O Lord! See if there's any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. I receive a revelation of what to let go.
BIBLE IN A YEAR:
Luke 8:40-56 & Joshua 7-9
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