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Tuesday... Now this might be a prayer we might not want to pray.


Tuesday... Now this might be a prayer we might not want to pray. 

I'm going this next month for my annual physical checkup. Now I'm not too good at doing this. This will be the first time for me to do it two years in a row in a long time. I know that it is for my own good but it isn't something that I really do as a priority. But check ups really are a good thing.

Now David starts Psalm 139 with a check up. Starting in verse 1 (MSG) he says, "God, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand. I'm an open book to you; even from a distance." Now this isn't a prayer that we really need to pray, is it? He doesn't need our permission to know all about us, He just does.

David goes on. Verse 2-6 says, "You know when I leave and when I get back; I'm never out of your sight, You know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence. I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there, too - your reassuring presence, coming and going. This is too much, too wonderful - I can't take it all in!"

I love the phrase, "I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there, too - your reassuring presence, coming and going." Why in the world, would we not take advantage, not serve, not seek after someone who sees what is ahead of us and sees what is behind us? That is a reassuring presence, coming and going. That is, if we are living the life He wants us to live. 

And that brings us to the last two verses of this chapter. Verses 23-24 says, "Investigate my life, O God, find out everything about me; Cross examine and test me, get a clear picture of what I'm about; See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong - then guide me on the road to eternal life."

Back to my check up. What if there is something physically wrong in me and my Doctor investigates and finds it and then sets out to do something about it. Now that can make a major difference in how I live my life. And that is what God can and wants to do in our spiritual life. And that can make all the difference, an eternal difference in our life. 

Just open yourself wide open to Him and ask Him to take care of that which is holding you back from a relationship with the One who knows all about you and who wants to guide you on the road to eternal life. Just pray that prayer of investigation to Him. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginnng




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