YOUR HIDDEN FAULT (2)

SPIRITUAL PASSAGE: "12 Who can understand his errors? CLEANSE ME FROM SECRET FAULTS. 13 Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me. THEN I SHALL BE BLAMELESS ....." - Psalms 19:12-13

Beloved, our memory verse in New International Version starts with '…Who can discern their own errors…?’ Psalm 19:12. Sometimes trying to see the truth about yourself is like trying to see inside your own eyeballs. ‘…Who can discern their own errors…?’ the psalmist asked. Fortunately, you’re not left on your own. The Spirit is already at work in you. Your job is simply to listen and respond. Guilt isn’t your enemy, sin is. God’s Spirit will often bring a sense of conviction, and, when it does, the proper response isn’t to try and suppress the guilt but to deal with the issue. When you don’t, those issues can build up like cholesterol in your arteries. At a moment of great crisis, Samson arose to exert his strength, ‘…but he did not know that the Lord had left him.’ (Judges 16:20). He’d become callous and lost his sensitivity to God. Our bodies have an amazing capacity to warn us about what ails them, if we learn to read the signs.

Brethren, Chest pains may indicate heart trouble and there are more subtle clues. Many of us will have seen the TV ads or read about detecting when someone is having a stroke: (FAST) Face, Arms, Speech, Time. God will enable you to find the truth about your soul if you’re open and willing. Left to yourself, you will usually rationalise or defend yourself. You’ll ‘... call evil good and good evil…’ (Isaiah 5:20). At the other extreme, you can become a neurotic over–analyser. Madame Guyon warned against ‘depending on the diligence of your own scrutiny rather than on God for the knowledge and discovery of our sin.’ What’s the answer? Simply put; Allow your thoughts and responses to be guided by the Holy Spirit.

SOULMEAL: 1 Sam 14-15, Matthew 24:1-14, Psalms 102:1-11, Proverbs 17:4-6.

Pray: 1. Lord I thank God for the grace to know the Truth. 2. Lord I ask for the grace to do the right thing always. 3. Lord I want you to help me to work on myself positively in Jesus mighty name. Amen

��CONFESSION: Lord Jesus, I receive grace to always hearken to your voice, devil I resist you and your voice from now on, I receive power to be spiritually sensitive to the things of God, Lord because you are the Lord that knoweth all things; please help me to humble myself the more in Jesus name.

©OLUTUSIN J.O.Y
Shalom!!!