Understanding Who We Really Are

Psalm 139:23

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

It is hard to understand, but we are in many ways strangers to ourselves.  We may hate sin and we may repent of all the sin in our lives, yet our natural eye is unable to see the depths of our iniquities.  Our human nature with its sin stained flesh is simply incapable of making an unbiased assessment of the darkness within us.  We must do as the psalmist did.  We must ask God to search our hearts and reveal to us everything that is displeasing to Him. 

Jesus Christ died on the Cross so that we could stand blameless before the Father.  To prepare us for this time, the Holy Spirit dwells within us to guide us through the sanctification process.  The Holy Spirit takes us beyond the carnal limits of our own understanding.  Inspired by the light of Our Savior, we are allowed to see the full depth of the darkness of our sin and the full height of our potential in Christ.  Rest assured that we would never properly examine ourselves without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.  Let us pray for the Holy Spirit to search our hearts.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You for making us righteous through the sacrifice of Your Son, Jesus.  We thank You for providing the grace that we need and the ever present assistance of the Holy Spirit so that we may submit to the transformation process from sinner to saint.  We pray that You open the gateways of our minds so that we may see and repent of all of the shackles of sin on our lives and we may see and grasp the fullness of your plans for our lives.  We ask these things in the name of the purifier of our souls, Jesus Christ.